Zyaka Miragayev – public activist Date of arrest: 11 October 2023 Charge: Article 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 11 October 2023, the Baku City Sabayil District Court sentenced Zyaka Miragayev 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 28 November 2024, the Baku City 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 Article 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 exceeding the amount necessary for personal consumption, committed in a large amount) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
And afterwards Zyaka Miragayev was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment.
Judge: Kamran Mukhtarov Place of detention: Pre-trial Detention Center № 1 at the Kyurdakhani settlement in Baku City Sabunchu District Conclusion: In the course of the trial, Zyaka Miragayev told that on 11 October 2023, he was detained by the officers of the Baku City Sabayil district 9th police station who had come to his house taking him to the police.
On the way, they put drugs in his pocket, and then, at the police station, they demanded that him admit the drugs in his pocket as his owns.
When he refused to do it, they started beating him brutally to make him confess.
At that time, he did not have a lawyer.
Zyaka Miragayev further stated that he was being punished for writing on the social networks about the police misconduct.
In particular, he wrote on Facebook prior to his arrest on 1 October 74 2023, that the police constantly put pressure on him.
All that occurred following his open letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Vilayat Eyvazov, in which he said, ‘Mr Minister, gentlemen -policemen and generals, don't bother me with your calls.
You do not observe the procedural processes stipulated by the law anyway.
You always do what you think is right’.
