COURTS IN SEPTEMBER 2020
5 September
A verdict against a radical Islamist has been issued
Bahram Qulaliyev
On 5 September Bahram Qulaliyev was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment by the Baku City Serious Crimes Court. According to the Azerbaijani State Security Service, the convicted individual, under the name “Abu Ibrahim Dagestani”, took part in the fighting within the radical terrorist groups in Afghanistan and was also a specialist in the development of explosives.
In 2019, he was detained in Pakistan and extradited to Azerbaijan.
8 September
The trial against Ilham Aliyev
Ilham Aliyev
The Baku City Sabayil District Court has heard the case of the Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, the well-known theologian Ilham Aliyev. His lawyer, Javad Javadov, made a statement to that effect. He said that the defense filed a petition to Rena Qafarova, the judge presiding over the trial,
“We have filed a petition to the court to substitute the selected measure of restraint in the form of detention to the house arrest or to bail. Today the case was considered in the Sabayil district court. Ilham Aliyev made a statement in which he once again emphasized that he did not agree with any of the accusations, and these accusations are unfounded. As a lawyer I also stressed out that today, there is no impediment to the investigation if my client is held under a house arrest or bail. However, unfortunately, the court did not satisfy our petition. An appeal will be filed regarding the matter”.
24 September
The radical Islamist who attacked a military unit has been convicted
Saleh Adilov
It was closed the trial against 36-year-old Saleh Adilov, accused of attacking a military unit and killing a soldier in Tartar. The trial was held in the Baku Court of Serious Crimes presided by the Judge Faiq Qaniyev.
According to the investigation results, in 2008, Saleh Adilov along with other members of a religious radical group carried out an armed raid on a military unit in the Tartar district. As a result of the attack, one soldier was killed, another was seriously wounded, and the perpetrators stole the weapons and numerous rounds of ammunition.
After that, according to the official information, Saleh Adilov, managed to avoid prosecution, and on May 14 2009, left the territory of Azerbaijan heading to Iran. Then, he moved to Pakistan in the province of North Waziristan where he joined a group led by Vugar Hajizada that operated under an umbrella of the “Taliban” terrorist organisation.
In 2010, after Hajizada was killed by the international anti-terrorist coalition, Saleh Adilov became the leader of the group. In 2014, he left Pakistan for Turkey, and crossed the Turkish-Syrian border to continue his activities as a member of the ISIS terrorist group. But he was arrested in Iran by the local law enforcement bodies on charges of illegal border crossing. In 2019, S. Adilov was released and illegally entered Turkey where he had been hiding. But the same year, he was arrested by the Turkish police authorities in the city of Van and transported to Azerbaijan.
All the above, the Court took as a basis of investigation, found no violations, and sentenced Saleh Adilov to life imprisonment.