Teymur Israyil oglu Hasanov Date of arrest: 14 May 2017 Charge: Articles 150.2.1 (Violent actions of sexual nature, committed by a group of persons, by a group with a premeditated conspiracy or by an organized group), 274 (State betray) and other articles of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic Sentence: On 8 October 2018, the Ganja City Military Court sentenced to 15 years in prison Presiding Judge: Vugar Mammadov Judges: Salman Huseynov, Vidadi Nasirov GROUP № 11 SENTENCED ON GANJA CASE – 13 persons Clarification of the Ganja case On 3 July 2018, there was assassination attempt on the Chief of the Executive Power Elmar Valiyev.
Ganja born Yunis Safarov wounded him and his body guard.
The name Yunis Safarov became well-known in Republic, after his photos were widespread on 3-4 July, at social networks, on which Safarov was lying on the floor, there were a lot of blood near him and on him, and there were traces of tortures on his body.
Photos became evidence that Y.
Safarov was beaten and brutally tortured.
After this, protest action against arbitrariness of the authorities was scheduled to 10 July, in front of Ganja City administration and widespread via social networks.
On 10 July 2018, Ministry of Internal Affairs informed about the disorders in Ganja, during which two police colonels were killed.
Noteworthy, those were exactly two police colonels, who on July 3rd, did not allow Elmar Valiyev’s son to kill Yunis Safarov… It is also important to pay attention, that the killing of the colonels took place without any intervention of police, the killer came to the square with a dragger in his hand, and he also left it easily.
State Security Service and Ministry of Internal Affairs started mass arrest among the believers. 77 people were arrested, attracted to criminal responsibility. 8 more persons were killed during “armed resistance” All the detainees on “Ganja case” were divided into groups.
One of the first verdicts was passed on 22 February 2019.
Ganja City Court on Grave Crimes sentenced the group of the accused, consisting of 11 people.
On 1 March and 15 March 2019, there were also the passing of the verdicts.
Analysis of the indicated judicial proceedings demonstrated that all verdicts are unlawful, groundless, unjust and passed in accordance with political order.
Court ignored the absence of any proofs of the guilt of the defendants on pressed charges against them; court did not investigate numerous complaints on the facts of tortures that accused were subjected to; court crudely violated the national legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic: Article 28 and 46 of the Constitution of the AR, Article 13 and 21.2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Azerbaijan Republic; also the norms of international law: Article 6 (2), 5 (1), 3 of European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Article 5 of 216 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, also the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Thus, judicial proceedings and verdicts demonstrated the full absence of the judicial independence and their execution of the political order during sentencing on so called “Ganja case”.
