INVESTIGATORS WHO FALSIFY ACCUSATIONS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
Orkhan Babayev
An investigator of the Department of Grave Crimes at the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Azerbaijan Republic
Orkhan Babayev, an investigator of the Department of Grave Crimes at the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Azerbaijan Republic conducted the so-called “Ganja case» concerning more than 60 detainees in the period from 2018 to 2019. Almost all of them were tortured during the investigation. As a result of severe tortures, the detainees were forced to sign false testimonies.
The accused Rauf Bayramov and Oqtay Huseynzade testified at the trial that Orkhan Babayev, an investigator, had ordered to torture the detainees and personally beat them up.
As a result of torture, two defendants in connection to the “Ganja case” died in the hospital of the Penitentiary Service: Aydyn Qurbanov died on the 10th of July 2019 and Eshgin Quliyev died on the 29th of September 2019.
Orkhan Babayev has repeatedly pursued the politically motivated journalists and civil society activists cases.
On September 30, 2015, he was awarded the medal “For Excellent Public Service”.