O.Mamedov: those who order political trials will for it

Appeal will be filed against the sentence  in the case of the  member  of NIDA movement, Civil Solidarity Party, and facebook  activist Omar Mamedov, said Khalid Bagirov, the lawyer of the accused.  Mamedov’s guilt was not proved, and the verdict itself is a political order.  This is  how a lawyer regarded a sentence Baku Serious Crimes  which  convicted  Mamedov to five years   of imprisonment for drug trafficking.  In his closing remarks, Mamedov said he did not accept the charges and pleaded not guilty.

The reason for his arrest is  creation of pages on facebook: “Lists of AzTV” and "Heydar Aliyev", sharply criticizing the government. Within a short period, this page has become popular; as a result of exchange between users  the number of  viewers reached  from 30,000 to 60,000. According to the administration of the facebook, last month the page "Lists of AzTV" was  viewed by about 500,000 users.

According to Mammadov,  on  November 22, 2013 his father was summoned to the Chief  Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (CDCOC) of the  Ministry of Internal Affairs, demanding  to stop the curse of the authorities. At that time Mamedov was studying in Turkish Cyprus, and  told the representative of the CDCOC  who called him to release his father, and that he himself would  soon return.

On January 20, 2014 Mamedov  returned in Baku, and the next morning he and his father were taken to the CDCOC.

" I  knew that I will be arrested,  but I returned to Baku, and do not regret it,"  said Mamedov.

From the beginning he did not believe in the fairness of the trial, and  trial for him was an opportunity to meet with family and friends. " It is an idiocy to  expect a fair trial in  a country where there is no rule of law,"  Mammadov said, recalling Article 295 of the Criminal Code, which  for  the intentional imposition of wrongful conviction is punishable by imprisonment for three years.

"I especially reminded of this article. For every unjust decision in the future you will be  punished. Neither you nor your leaders can not avoid it," Mammadov said, referring to the judges and prosecutor.

He further cited the French revolutionary of the 18^th century, Gracchus Babeuf: "Foulon was  executed by a sentence of the people. Oh, how it hurts me to see the delight of the crowd! I was satisfied and dissatisfied. Our rulers, instead  of  making us civil, turned into barbarians, for themselves they are as follows … "

"Aliyev regime believes that filling prisons  with free-fighting youth, it eliminates the threat to his power. However,  unwittingly they  make  heroes of this young. We are  citizens of the country where 140 political prisoners. Half of prisoners in Europe is in Azerbaijan," said Mamedov. "The  most important  thing for person is the judgment of his conscience. There's no false witnesses, nor fabricated lawsuits. I My conscience is clean, and that is enough for me," summed Mamedov.

When the judge Eldar Mikayilov asks whether he wants to ask  court about something, the young man said, "Read out the sentence that they ordered you." The relatives and associates  of Mamedov  in the hall  met Mamedov’s words with an ovation. The court retired to consider,  and then verdict was announced.

However, it is not clear how the judges managed to write with 30minutes a multi-page text that was read  for 50 minutes?

The PFPA leader Ali Kerimli who was watching  the  trial said about the verdict: " It was once again  confirmed that prosecutors and courts  are tools for government repression."  Political prisoners in Azerbaijan have long ceased to be an internal affair of the country, and now this problem attracted the attention of the whole world. Kerimli expressed  a confidence that with the joint efforts of the local and international community it will be able to release political prisoners. –0616D-