06 January 2010, 15:24
Azerbaijan: advocates of "Ideal" editor-in-chief state violation of their client's rights
Advocates of Nazim Guliev, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Ideal", demand to stop the investigation against their client. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that at a press conference today lawyers Elbrus Saryvelli and Vugar Khasaev said that the investigation "from the very beginning was illegal."
On January 5, at the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, at the trial on Nazim Guliev's case, the floor was given to the state prosecutor, who asked to recognize the editor guilty of extortion, bribery, hooliganism and drug storage, and sentence him to 15 years of freedom deprivation. Mr Guliev has rejected all the charges.
Lawyer Khasaev believes that charges against Guliev are "customized, and judges are executing someone's order." According to the other lawyer - Elbrus Saryvelli, Nazim Guliev is sure that "head of President's administration Ramiz Mekhtiev and General Public Prosecutor Zakir Garalov are taking revenge on him for his criticism."
The press service of the State Office of Public Prosecutor named the lawyers' statements "absolutely groundless".
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Author: Faik Medzhid Source: CK correspondent
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