Political prisoner, professor of economics Gubad Ibadoglu has been held within the detention centre since 23 July 2023. Throughout this time, his detention has been extended twice. Galib Togrul, the brother of the detainee, instructed Turan that no investigation is being carried out and the significantly in poor health economist is being detained with out grounds.
The state of affairs is identical with the detention of journalists from “Abzas Media”, “Toplum TV” and different media, whose detention and investigation are politically motivated. The detention phrases are extended, the investigation isn’t carried out or the method is sluggish. Dozens of individuals whose guilt has not been confirmed sit in detention.
Talking to “Turan”, lawyer Namizad Safarov referred to as the company’s query about the potential for turning the detention centre into a jail for punishing the harmless as well timed and related. In any other case, how else can one clarify the truth that within the absence of investigative actions, the phrases of imprisonment “for the interval of motion” are repeatedly prolonged regardless of the intense diseases of these below investigation?
“The legislation requires that the investigation be carried out shortly, to suit throughout the first time period of imprisonment – 2-4 months. The prolongation of the time period of imprisonment is allowed if there are good causes for it. The legislation implies that earlier than detaining the accused, the investigators have collected sufficient proof to show his guilt. In any other case, a citizen can’t be disadvantaged of liberty.
In Azerbaijan, nevertheless, investigators and prosecutors are racking their brains day and evening to increase and prolong once more the interval of detention within the investigative isolator. Having no proof of the invented guilt, they power the accused by varied strategies to confess their non-existant guilt, search for “witnesses” to make the particular person seem in court docket as a counterfeiter, a hooligan, a drug seller. The aim is to punish a political activist with imprisonment for a yr and a half, within the absence of proof of guilt. The legislation permits to increase detention for a most of 18 months.
Based on the lawyer, skilled investigators can end work on one felony case in 2-3 months. His colleagues are nostalgic for the Soviet period, when the legislation set the deadline for investigative actions at two months. In uncommon circumstances, when the workload of investigators was very giant because of the have to query a lot of witnesses, the prosecutor’s workplace, after checking the investigator’s petition, may prolong the detention interval for an additional two months.
Notice that Safarov doesn’t imagine that Azerbaijan, throughout the framework of reforming the authorized system, will abandon the limitless extension of the time of deprivation of liberty on the pretext of the complexity of the investigation. “Quite the opposite, lawmakers have authorised extending the interval of investigative actions below the pretext of reforming the authorized system. I’m afraid how they won’t take away the one-and-a-half-year deadline for investigative detention, making this era limitless. Underneath the present authorities, reform can solely be reactionary,” lawyer Namizad Safarov added.
