Shamil Adil oglu Abdulaliyev – member of the Muslim Unity Movement Date of arrest: 15 March 2023 Charge: Articles 234.4.1 (Illegal purchase, storage, manufacturing, processing, transportation without a purpose of selling of narcotics or psychotropic substances in a quantity (amount) exceeding necessary for personal consumption) and 234.4.3 (Illegal manufacturing, purchase, storage, transportation, transfer or selling of narcotics, psychotropic substances committed in large amount) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
On 15 March 2023, Shamil Abdulaliyev was sentenced to 4 months in a pre-trial detention center.
The period of detention in custody during the investigation has been subsequently extended several times Sentence: On 7 March 2024, the Baku Court for Serious Crimes issued a verdict: since the prosecution failed to provide any convincing evidence in the course of the trial, the Judge substituted the previous Articles of the Prosecution with a new one, 234.1-1 (Illegal acquisition or storage of drugs or psychotropic substances without the purpose of sale in an amount 133 exceeding the amount necessary for personal consumption, committed in a large amount) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
And afterwards Shamil Abdulaliyev was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment On 2 May 2024, the Baku City Court of Appeal reversed the first instance Court's ruling and sentenced Shamil Abdulaliyev under the previous Articles to a 6-year imprisonment.
Judge: Murad Mammadov Place of detention: Penal Colony № 8 at the Buta settlement in Baku City Qaradaq District