2024-06-14 16:53:18
Investigative journalist Hafiz Babaly, who was arrested on expenses of smuggling overseas forex with out a authorized foundation, appealed to the chief prosecutor, the minister of inner affairs, the chief of the Baku Metropolis Police Division and the ombudsman. Relations of the journalist mentioned about it.
Babaly states in his appeals that the investigator Togrul Huseynov and the Prosecutor Mobil Shafiyev managed to arrest him, after which to increase the unlawful preliminary detention interval, regardless that they knew that he was not concerned within the acts of the smuggling case.
On this regard, Babaly calls for that an official investigation be began in opposition to the investigator and prosecutor and that the prison case in opposition to him be terminated.
Hafiz Babaly, the editor of the “financial information” division of Turan Data Company, was detained on December 13. He was charged with “overseas forex smuggling”. He was sentenced to 3 months in jail by the court docket’s determination. Babaly was concerned within the strategy of “Abzas Media” case. Human rights defenders acknowledged him as a political prisoner.
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