PROSECUTOR IN BAKU DEMANDS TO SENTENCE SOLDIER WHO PASSED TO KARABAKH TO 14 YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.06.2007 15:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A trial came to end in Azerbaijan towards a soldier
who is accused of high treason. On Thursday the prosecutor demanded a
14-year-imprisonment sentence for private Eldaniz Nuriev in the Court
for War Crimes of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of Judge Mamedbagir
Zeynalov. The court session finished with response speeches by the
culprit and his lawyer. The court is expected to run its verdict on
June 29.
Eldaniz Nuriev is accused of violating sentry rules, desertion and high
treason. According to the indictment, "the soldier who was recruited
to the army by the commissariat of Agsu region of Azerbaijan, without
permission left the N military unit in Fizuli region of Azerbaijan,
where he was passing his military service. Soon he was taken prisoner
by Armenians. According to the indictment, E. Nuriev passed the
enemy information, which is state secret in the military sphere of
Azerbaijan.", Trend reports
But in reality private of Azeri army Eldaniz Nuriev born in 1979,
passed the Karabakh side in the night of December 31, 2006 in the
Fizuli direction of the contact line between armed forces of Nagorno
Karabakh and Azerbaijan. Soon he was taken prisoner by servicemen of
NKR Defense Army. Later he was returned to the Azeri side.