AZERI EX-CAPTIVE CONVICTED OF HIGH TREASON

Turan news agency
Jan 23 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku, 23 January: The Court for Grave Crimes issued a verdict for
yet another national traitor on 21 January.

Judge Zeynal Agayev sentenced to 11 years in a high-security colony
Azerbaijani serviceman Vusal Qeybatov. The defendant did not plead
guilty, sources in the court told Turan.

The closed trial on this case began in November 2008.

According to materials of the case, Vusal Qeybatov was taken captive by
Armenians in the vicinity of Agdam [near Nagornyy Karabakh] on 11 April
2008. He was handed over to Azerbaijan on 3 May. After an investigation
was completed, Qeybatov was arrested and a criminal case under Article
274 (high treason) of the Criminal Code was launched against him.

This is not the first case when servicemen released from captivity
were arrested. Over 10 servicemen have been convicted on similar
charges so far.