AZERBAIJAN SOLDIER’S TRIAL TO BE CLOSED

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 19 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend S.Ilhamgizi / On 19 April, Judge Jamal
Ramazanov presided over a preliminary session in the Court on Heinous
Crimes of Azerbaijan with regards to the criminal case of Azerbaijan
Army’s Soldier, Vusal Garajayev. Mr. Garajayev was captured and held
as a prisoner of war in Armenia.

The court case was scheduled for 30 April and the trial will continue
but at the preliminary session it was decided the trial would be
closed to the public.

A criminal case has been filed in the Investigation Department for
Heinous Crimes against Garajayev in compliance with the article 274
(selling out the Mother-Land) and 338.1 (breaking rules of watch).

Mr. Garajayev, born in 1988 was drafted to military service last
year by the Military Registration Office of the Balaken district of
Azerbaijan. He had been taken as a prisoner of war by the Armenian
military on 7 December in the territory of Agdam district and was
released from captivity on 23 December.