{"id":21261,"date":"2021-11-02T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=21261"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:58:32","slug":"journalist-elchin-hasanzadeh-released-today-after-serving-his-entire-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/journalist-elchin-hasanzadeh-released-today-after-serving-his-entire-prison-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Elchin Hasanzadeh released today after serving his entire prison term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/elchin-1-515x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21262 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/elchin-1-515x300.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/elchin-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/elchin-1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/elchin-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist and blogger Elchin Hasanzadeh has been released today, having served his 8-month prison term in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hasanzadeh told the Turan news agency that he was arrested on trumped-up charges and the real reason for his punishment was his exposure of corrupt activities of officials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hasanzadeh added that during his imprisonment he severely undermined his health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I got neurological diseases, kidney problems, bleeding of internal organs,&#8221; the journalist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, Hasanzadeh has no complaints about the conditions of detention and treatment in colony number 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journalist said that he would appeal to the ECHR to recognize the illegality of his sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hasanzadeh said that despite his failing health he keeps his spirits up and intends as a journalist to continue his work &#8220;to expose the facts of corruption among officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 2 this year, the Sheki Court of Appeals sentenced Elchin Hasanzade and blogger Ibrahim Turksoy to 8 months of imprisonment on charges of slander and insult.&nbsp; The suit was filed by Shahriyar Mustafayev, head of the Mingachevir housing and utilities service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today the Turksoy&#8217;s sentence expired as well.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist and blogger Elchin Hasanzadeh has been released today, having served his 8-month prison term in full. Hasanzadeh told the Turan news agency that he was arrested on trumped-up charges and the real reason for his punishment was his exposure of corrupt activities of officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21263,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261\/revisions\/21263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}