Osman Narimanoglu, the pinnacle of the web site demokratik.az, who’s serving a jail sentence, declared a starvation strike on November 19 on the Sheki Penitentiary Advanced. He’s protesting towards legal prosecution and the disregard of his complaints by the Lawyer Normal of Azerbaijan, in keeping with his spouse, Arzu Rzayeva.
She said that after declaring the starvation strike, Narimanoglu was positioned in solitary confinement. She expressed concern for her husband’s well being because of the starvation strike, as he’s already affected by a number of well being points.
*Osman Narimanoglu was arrested on July 5, 2022, on expenses of extortion. After his arrest, he claimed that he had been slandered by officers from the Melioration Division of the Goranboy district and docs from the Geygel area, whose corruption had been uncovered on his web site.
On January 25, 2024, the court docket sentenced him to six.5 years in jail, and on Could 17, the appellate court docket upheld the decision. On November 6, the Supreme Court docket confirmed the sentence. Human rights defenders have acknowledged Osman Narimanoglu as a political prisoner.