On July 9, the Khatai district court docket of Baku happy the investigation’s submission to increase the time period of arrest of investigative journalist Hafiz Babaly, concerned “within the case of “Abzas Media” for an additional 2 months and seven days – till September 20, his lawyer Rasul Jafarov advised Turan.

In the course of the assembly, the protection identified the unreasonableness of Babaly’s detention and filed a counter petition to vary the safety measure to deal with arrest. The journalist himself denied the accusations of smuggling, linking his case with journalism and drew the court docket’s consideration to well being issues. However, Babaly is a visually impaired individual of the third group. Moreover, he suffers from varicose veins of the decrease extremities. Nonetheless, the court docket didn’t fulfill the protection’s request and prolonged the interval of the journalist’s arrest.

As Jafarov famous, the protection will enchantment the court docket’s resolution in the present day. * In November 2023 – January 2024, six journalists and media employees related to “Abzas Media” had been arrested on fees of “smuggling international forex by prior settlement”. In April, Imran Aliyev, head of the web site, and Anar Mammadli, head of the Heart for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training, had been additionally arrested within the case meclis.information.

Subsequently, their circumstances had been separated into separate proceedings. On June 1, economist Farida Mehralizade was additionally arrested within the case of “Abzas Media”. These arrested plead not responsible. Human rights activists acknowledged them as political prisoners. Worldwide organizations have known as for the discharge of these arrested.