{"id":25689,"date":"2023-04-28T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=25689"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:10:14","slug":"supreme-court-to-consider-appeal-of-opposition-activist-deported-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/supreme-court-to-consider-appeal-of-opposition-activist-deported-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to consider appeal of opposition activist deported from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan on May 2 will consider the appeal of the Party of People&#8217;s Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA) activist Punkhan Kerimli, arrested after being deported from Germany. The activist&#8217;s father Vahid Kerimli told Turan news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The father believes that the Supreme Court should acquit his son because the charge is trumped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The charges against my son have not been proved in the courts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is to remind that Pyunhan Kerimli immigrated to Germany in October 2018 due to persecution in Azerbaijan. However, a German court found no grounds for awarding him political refugee status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2021 Kerimli was deported to Azerbaijan and arrested two months later on charges of drug trafficking.&nbsp; The Baku Court of Grave Crimes sentenced Kerimli to six years of imprisonment.&nbsp; An appeals court reduced the sentence by one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerimli was recognised by human rights activists as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan on May 2 will consider the appeal of the Party of People&#8217;s Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA) activist Punkhan Kerimli, arrested after being deported from Germany. The activist&#8217;s father Vahid Kerimli told Turan news agency. The father believes that the Supreme Court should acquit his son because the charge is trumped [&hellip;]<\/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-25689","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\/25689","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=25689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25690,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}