Azeri court sets free jailed anti-Armenian protesters
MPA news agency
22 Sep 04
BAKU
Judge Sahin Yusifov today presided over the trial of members of the
Karabakh Liberation Organization [KLO] in the Court of Appeal of the
Republic of Azerbaijan. They were given long prison sentences by the
Nasimi district court for taking part in the 22 June protest against
the participation of Armenian officers in NATO exercises in Baku.
Judge Yusifov commuted the verdict of the Nasimi district court to
suspended sentences and released the KLO members right in the
courtroom. The five-year imprisonment of Akif Nagi, chairman of the
KLO, was commuted to two years[‘ suspended sentence], the three-year
imprisonment of his first deputy Firudin Mammadov was commuted to one
year[‘s suspended sentence], and four members of the KLO were given
one and a half years’ suspended sentences instead of the previous
four-year imprisonment.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress