{"id":29113,"date":"2024-08-23T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=29113"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:22:04","slug":"court-arrests-bahruz-samedov-for-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/court-arrests-bahruz-samedov-for-4-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Court arrests Bahruz Samedov for 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29114\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, the Sabail District Court of Baku ordered the arrest of political scientist Bahruz Samedov for four months,&nbsp; his lawyer, Zibeyda Sadygova told Turan. Samedov has been charged under Article 274 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan, which pertains to treason. The prosecution argued that Samedov&#8217;s arrest was necessary because he studies abroad and might attempt to flee. The defense objected, arguing that Samedov had no intention of escaping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samedov declared his innocence, stating that he has never committed treason against his country. He also mentioned that he is a peaceful person who practices Christianity, a religion that promotes peace. Samedov emphasized that he only sought peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan and that his research highlighted the issues faced by both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court granted the prosecution&#8217;s request for his detention. The defense plans to appeal the decision. Samedov also claimed that he was subjected to pressure during his arrest, and the court ordered the prosecutor&#8217;s office to investigate this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Sabail District Court of Baku ordered the arrest of political scientist Bahruz Samedov for four months,&nbsp; his lawyer, Zibeyda Sadygova told Turan. Samedov has been charged under Article 274 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan, which pertains to treason. The prosecution argued that Samedov&#8217;s arrest was necessary because he studies abroad and [&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-29113","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\/29113","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=29113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29115,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29113\/revisions\/29115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}