An appeals courtroom in Baku has upheld the executive arrest of the Celebration of Folks’s Entrance of Azerbaijan (PPFA) activist Tehran Abdullayev in a drug use case.
The attraction in opposition to Abdullayev’s arrest was heard on the Baku Court docket of Enchantment late final week, lawyer Nemat Kerimli instructed Turan.
In keeping with police, Abdullayev was behaving ‘surprisingly’ on the road, in order that they detained him, suspecting drug use. Allegedly, after an examination, the activist’s drug use was confirmed, in order that they handed him over to the courtroom, which imposed a 20-day arrest, the lawyer mentioned.
Nevertheless, Abdullayev denied the accusation. ‘Tehran Abdullayev mentioned he was truly detained at a constructing supplies store. He mentioned he didn’t know what medication regarded like in any respect and was removed from it. Abdullayev mentioned that for a number of days he did not know what cost he was arrested on in any respect. Abdullayev linked his arrest to his membership within the Celebration of Folks’s Entrance of Azerbaijan and political exercise,’ lawyer Kerimli mentioned.
The defence requested to terminate the executive case, or at the very least cut back the punishment to 10 days and launch him in reference to serving this time period.
* Tehran Abdullayev, an activist of the Celebration of Folks’s Entrance of Azerbaijan, was arrested on 15 October for 20 days below administrative process on costs of drug use. He denied the cost and linked the arrest to his political actions. The PPFA additionally claimed political motives for Abdullayev’s prosecution.
