A personal prison criticism has been filed towards the chairman of the Celebration of Folks’s Entrance of Azerbaijan (PPFA) Ali Kerimli.
A preparatory listening to on the case has been scheduled for 13 August at Baku’s Nasimi district court docket, Kerimli wrote on his face-book web page.
The Nasimi District Court docket knowledgeable Turan that the court docket listening to, chaired by Babek Panakhov, is ready.
“Nonetheless, the discover despatched from the court docket doesn’t specify the complainant and beneath what pretext the case was initiated.
It’s merely famous {that a} non-public cost has been filed attributable to an offence towards the liberty and dignity of an individual. These are Articles 147 (slander) and 148 (insult) of the Felony Code of Azerbaijan,” Kerimli mentioned.
“That is one other falsification of the repressive machine. I’ll say instantly that no prison case, no risk of arrest and even actual arrest will cease our battle for freedom and justice,” Kerimli said.
The “Digital Court docket” portal says that the criticism towards Kerimli was filed beneath Article 147.1 (libel) of the Felony Code, which supplies for varied punishments starting from a financial effective to imprisonment for as much as 6 months.
There have additionally been earlier makes an attempt to prosecute him. Again in 1994, they tried to cost him with unlawful carrying of ammunition, and since 2006 he has not been issued a overseas passport.
The European Court docket of Justice acknowledged the deprivation of Kerimli’s passport as illegal. Nonetheless, the Azerbaijani authorities nonetheless ignore this choice.
