Azeri prosecutor requests sentences for seven jailed opposition leaders
Lider TV, Baku
12 Oct 04
Another hearing into the case of those accused of committing mass
disturbances in the capital on 15-16 October [after presidential
elections in 2003] was held at the Grave Crimes Court today.
Prosecutor Nazir Bayramov continued [he started yesterday] reading
out the indictment. He requested that the court sentence [chairman of
the People’s Party of Azerbaijan] Panah Huseynov and [former general
secretary of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan] Sardar Calaloglu
to five years in prison, [editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat newspaper]
Rauf Arifoglu and [deputy chairman of the Musavat Party] Arif Hacili
to six years as well as [chairman of the Hope Party] Iqbal Agazada,
[deputy chairman of the Musavat Party] Ibrahim Ibrahimli and [chairman
of the Karabakh disabled society] Etimad Asadov to four years and
three months.