MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
POLICE OFFICERS GUILTY OF VIOLENCE AND TORTURES
Sadigov Adalat
Colonel
Chief of Ganja City Nizami District Police Division
Sadiqov Adalat became a Chief of the Ganja City Nizami District Police Division in 2011.
During July- August 2018, there were arrested about 80 people on so-called “Ganja Case”.
At the trial, all the accused testified about the use of brutal tortures towards them during preliminary investigation, indicating that the Chief of the Ganja City Nizami District Police
Division Colonel Adalat Sadiqov, personally, tortured people, including minor Emil Mammadov.
On May 2019, Colonel Adalat Sadiqov retired.
Detainees at the Ganja City Nizami District Police Division were also tortured by:
- Afgan Ismayilov – senior officer of the criminal investigation department of this police division,
- Alaskar Tagiyev – police division officer,
- Baxtiyar Abbasov – police division officer, senior sergeant of police,
- Parviz Maharramli – officer of the criminal investigation department of this police division,
- Sanan Verdiyev – police division officer.