{"id":25815,"date":"2023-07-06T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=25815"},"modified":"2023-07-06T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:14:23","slug":"the-court-of-appeal-rejected-bakhtiyar-hajiyevs-appeal-for-the-extension-of-the-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/the-court-of-appeal-rejected-bakhtiyar-hajiyevs-appeal-for-the-extension-of-the-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Court of Appeal rejected Bakhtiyar Hajiyev`s appeal for the extension of the arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the Baku Court of Appeal dismissed a complaint against the extension of the arrest of human rights defender and public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev for another month \u2013 until July 28,&nbsp; a lawyer Agyl Laidj&nbsp;told Turan. He noted that the defense will send an additional complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in the Hajiyev case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Bakhtiar Hajiyev was arrested on December 9 last year on charges of hooliganism and contempt of court. On the same day, the Khatai District Court sentenced him to 1 month and 20 days in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 9, 2023, the Court of Appeal refused his release and he resumed his hunger strike. On January 21, the court extended the term of his arrest for a month, and on February 23 \u2013 for another two months &#8211; on April 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 28 &#8211; on the 51st day of the hunger strike, Hajiyev stopped his hunger strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives of the US State Department, the US Senate, the European Union, the Council of Europe and a number of international NGOs have repeatedly demanded Hajiyev&#8217;s release from prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 16, he was charged with new charges of illegal entrepreneurship, legalization of proceeds from crime, falsification of documents and smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new charges brought against Azerbaijani activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev are related to receiving grants from a European human rights organization, the Institute for Freedom and Security of Reporters said. The organization expressed fears that Hajiyev&#8217;s case will become a precedent, after which a wave of persecution of other activists and human rights defenders on similar charges may begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Baku Court of Appeal dismissed a complaint against the extension of the arrest of human rights defender and public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev for another month \u2013 until July 28,&nbsp; a lawyer Agyl Laidj&nbsp;told Turan. He noted that the defense will send an additional complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in the [&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-25815","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\/25815","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=25815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25816,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions\/25816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}