{"id":29817,"date":"2024-12-17T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=29817"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:09:44","slug":"appeal-court-fails-to-release-french-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/appeal-court-fails-to-release-french-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal court fails to release French citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/p03-520x346.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/p03-520x346.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/p03-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/p03-768x511.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/p03.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 16 December, the Baku Court of Appeal, presided over by Ibrahim Ibrahimli, considered the complaint of a French citizen who, with two other foreigners, drew graffiti on underground cars in Baku Metro in March this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clerc Theo Hugo, a French citizen, De-Saint Quentin Ismael, a New Zealand citizen, and Han Paul, an Australian citizen, were charged in the criminal case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the incident, all three were arrested administratively, but later the prosecutor appealed against this decision and they were brought to the criminal case. &nbsp;At the same time, the Frenchman was arrested during the investigation, while the other two remained free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 19 September, the court sentenced the French citizen to 3 years of imprisonment, and Ismael and Paul were fined 6,800 manats (about 3,500 euros).The latter two later withdrew their appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hugo, repenting of his offence, asked to have his punishment commuted to a fine like the other defendants in the case. However, the state prosecutor objected, and the court upheld the sentence of the Frenchman, who had earlier written a petition for pardon to the President of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the Court of Appeal was also inexorable, upholding the Frenchman&#8217;s sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 December, the Baku Court of Appeal, presided over by Ibrahim Ibrahimli, considered the complaint of a French citizen who, with two other foreigners, drew graffiti on underground cars in Baku Metro in March this year. Clerc Theo Hugo, a French citizen, De-Saint Quentin Ismael, a New Zealand citizen, and Han Paul, an Australian [&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-29817","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\/29817","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=29817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29818,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817\/revisions\/29818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}