EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF AN AZERBAIJANI PAPER ARRESTED

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 20 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr. K. Zarbaliyeva/ The legal proceedings
on the special accusatory suit â brought by the Chief of the
Centre for Protection of the Rights of refugees and IDPs, Tatyana
Chaladze against the founder and editor-in-chief of the Newspapers –
"Realniy Azerbaidjan" ("Real Azerbaijan") and "Gundalik Azarbaycan"
("Daily Azerbaijan"), Eynula Fatullayev, has gone on in the Yasamal
District Court of Baku City today, a source in the Court has said.

In his testifying at the Court, Eynalla Fatullayev noted that he did
not consider himself the guilt. He said that he had added nothing on
his own in the recently-published article named "The Diary of Karabakh"
by stressing that all the words which were in the article belong to
his interlocutors.

Linguist Rufat Valiyev, who has been invited to the Court as a
specialist, has said that the article does not contain any word or
expression that could insult the honour and dignity of dwellers of the
Azerbaijani Small Town of Khodjali, which was subjected to genocide
by Armenians in February, 1992.

According to the specialist, in the article, the author had written
only the opinions of the parties.

Some of dwellers of Khodjali, participating at the judicial sitting,
were gone out of the Court hall because their interrupting the legal
proceedings.

The plaintiff insisted on the Court’s sentencing Mr. Fatullayev to
a three-year imprisonment.

However, by the decision made by the Court, Mr. Fatullayev was
sentenced to two-year and six-month imprisonment, and arrested right
in the Court hall.

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