IDEAL NEWSPAPER FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NAZIM GULIYEV’S TRIAL BEGINS

APA
Sept 23 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Ramil Mammadli – APA. The Grievous Crimes Court began a trial
on the criminal case of Nazim Guliyev, an editor and the founder of
a local newspaper Ideal, APA reports. Judge Azer Orujov presided over
the trial. The court appointed the judicial survey on September 29.

According to the indictment, Guliyev is accused under Articles
182.2 (Extortion), 182.2.3 (extortion with use of force), 182.3.2
(extortion with a purpose of occupying large size of property), 221.1
(hooliganism) and 234.1 (Illegal manufacturing, purchase, storage,
transportation, transfer or selling of narcotics, psychotropic
substances) of the Criminal Code.

On May 20, Nazim Guliyev was acquitted from the charge under Article
147.2 (slander, which is connected with accusation of committing
serious or especially serious crime) of the Criminal Code but was
given six months in prison on insult charges under Article 148 of
the Criminal Code.

The lawsuit was filed by Tenzila Rustemkhanli, chairwoman of Azeri-Turk
Women Association, and Sabira Mahmudova, known as "Karabakh’s Hajar".