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A Unified List of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan A UNIFIED LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN A UNIFIED LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN Covering the period up to 25 November 2019 Contents INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 3 THE DEFINITION OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ...................................................... 4 POLITICAL PRISONERS ............................................................................................ 5 A. JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS .................................................................... 5 B. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVISTS .......................................................... 13 A case of financing of the opposition party ......................................................... 19 C. RELIGIOUS ACTIVISTS .................................................................................. 24 (1) Members of Muslim Unity Movement and people arrested in Nardaran Settlement ............................................................................................................ 24 (2) Chairman of Islamic Party of Azerbaijan and persons arrested together with him ....................................................................................................................... 51 (3) Other religious activists .................................................................................. 56 D. LIFETIME PRISONERS ................................................................................... 59 E. POLITICAL HOSTAGES ................................................................................. 66 F. SAID DADASHBAYLI AND THOSE ARRESTED WITH HIM ..................... 67 G. GANJA CASE .................................................................................................... 71 CONCLUSION/RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................. 90 APPENDIX 1 ............................................................................................................. 911 APPENDIX 2 ............................................................................................................. 922 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................... 98 2 A UNIFIED LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN Covering the period up to 25 November 2019 INTRODUCTION Civil society organizations working in Azerbaijan have issued this Report with a view to draw attention to the long-standing problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. Despite consistent calls from domestic and international organizations to end the cycle of arrests, releases, and rearrests, authorities have not demonstrated the will to cease the pattern of politically motivated arrests. The list was developed by the Working Group on a Unified List of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan1, which brings together human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists and experts. The list includes cases of people arrested or remaining in prison by 25 November 2019. To develop this Report, consultations have been carried out with a number of domestic and international organizations working on the issue of political prisoners; reports of prominent human rights organizations, as well as the relevant documents of international organizations that Azerbaijan is a member of and has commitments to – particularly, Council of Europe – have been examined; media monitoring has been carried out; trial monitoring has been conducted; court judgments and other relevant legal documents have been analyzed; and meetings and interviews were held with the lawyers, families and defence committees of the political prisoners included in this Report. The Report reflects detailed information about each political prisoner, including the original motives behind their arrest, the violations of law committed during the process of their arrest/detention, and photos of political prisoners (though photos of some of the prisoners were not available). Cases included in the report are divided into the following categories: A. Journalists and bloggers B. Writers/poets C. Human rights defenders D. Political and social activists E. Religious activists F. Lifetime prisoners G. Persons arrested in the relation to social protests H. Former government officials I. Political hostages J. Said Dadashbayli and those arrested with him Some categories are divided into subcategories, which are detailed in the report. The Working Group has decided to include one person (number 8 in the List) who is under house arrest into the report. The Group considers that if a person disconnected from the society, his/her rights of communication with others and right to change the address are restricted as a result of the criminal case, this person can be considered as a prisoner. 1 On 22 January 2019, the rapporteur had submitted memorandum to the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly. The report refers to the Unified List of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan, prepared by this Working Group. The Working Group is ready to submit any supporting documentation to the rapporteur or other international bodies who work on the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. 3 A UNIFIED LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN Covering the period up to 25 November 2019 THE DEFINITION OF POLITICAL PRISONERS This Report has been developed on the basis of the criteria set by the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Resolution 1900 of 3 October 2012.2 A person deprived of his or her personal liberty is regarded as a “political prisoner”: a. if the detention has been imposed in violation of one of the fundamental guarantees set out in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Protocols, in particular freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and information, freedom of assembly and association; b. if the detention has been imposed for purely political reasons without connection to any offence; c. if, for political motives, the length of the detention or its conditions are clearly out of proportion to the offence the person has been found guilty of or is suspected of; d. if, for political motives, he or she is detained in a discriminatory manner as compared to other persons; or, e. if the detention is the result of proceedings which were clearly unfair and this appears to be connected with political motives of the authorities.” In this resolution, PACE recalls that the definition of “political prisoner” was elaborated within the Council of Europe by the independent experts of the Secretary General, mandated to assess cases of alleged political prisoners in Armenia and Azerbaijan in the context of the accession of the two States to the Organisation. Those deprived of their personal liberty for terrorist crimes shall not be considered political prisoners if they have been prosecuted and sentenced for such crimes according to national legislation and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. In the Report, Amnesty International has been referred to in the cases of those recognized as a prisoner of conscience in line with the criteria of this organization.3 2 http://bit.ly/1piq992 3 http://bit.ly/18KQFUz 4 A UNIFIED LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN Covering the period up to 25 November 2019 POLITICAL PRISONERS A. JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS 1. Araz Faig oglu GULIYEV © ww.xeber44.com Date of arrest: 9 September 2012 Charge: Articles 228.1 (Illegal purchase, transfer, selling, storage, transportation and carrying of fire-arms, accessories to it, supplies (smooth-bore hunting weapon and supplies thereof excluded) or explosives); 233 (Organizing actions causing violation of public order or active participation in such actions); 283.1 (Incitement of national, racial, social or religious hatred and hostility, humiliation of national dignity, as well as restriction of citizens’ rights, or establishment of the superiority of citizens on the basis of their national, racial or religious background, committed publicly or through use of mass media), 315.2 (Resistance or violence against representative of authority) and 324 (Insulting national flag or emblem of the Republic of Azerbaijan) of Criminal Code Sentence: 8 years Place of detention: Prison No. 17 Case summary: Araz Guliyev was the editor-in-chief of www.xeber44.com, an online newspaper based in Masalli, Azerbaijan. The articles published on this website often criticized the government’s policies on religion, as well as social problems of Masalli region. In connection with his activity on this website, A. Guliyev was repeatedly taken to the police station before his arrest, where he was told to stop his activity. Local executive authorities also warned A. Guliyev. Two days before his arrest, on 6 September 2012, A. Guliyev and another Masalli resident, Rza Agali, were detained and beaten by police and plain-clothed persons, then taken to the Masalli Regional Police Department. They were released after an instruction from Deputy Police Chief Alifaga Kazimov at 3:00am. At about 9:00 pm on 8 September, A.Guliyev and another Masalli resident, Ziya Tahirov, protested against organization of a disco party in Nizami Park as part of a folklore festival held in Masalli. The two looked for organizers to get additional information about the event to write a critical article. However, the police dismissed them from the area. Two hours later, when A. Guliyev and Z. Tahirov returned to the scene, they
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