{"id":29876,"date":"2024-12-28T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=29876"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T08:22:49","slug":"state-prosecutor-asks-to-sentence-bakhtiyar-hajiyev-to-11-years-of-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/state-prosecutor-asks-to-sentence-bakhtiyar-hajiyev-to-11-years-of-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"State prosecutor asks to sentence Bakhtiyar Hajiyev to 11 years of imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/baxtiyar-520x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/baxtiyar-520x327.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/baxtiyar.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 28 December, at the trial of activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, the state prosecutor asked to sentence him to 11 years of imprisonment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defence disagrees with this and intends to insist on the activist&#8217;s acquittal. The next hearing is scheduled for 6 January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was arrested in December 2022 on charges of hooliganism and contempt of court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 16 June last year, the activist was charged with new charges related to financial violations &#8211; misappropriation of grants. He was also charged with illegal entrepreneurship, money laundering, smuggling and using forged documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November of the same year, another charge was brought against him &#8211; non-payment of taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hajiyev himself and his colleagues consider the trial to be a political order, the reason for which was Hajiyev&#8217;s harsh criticism of the activities of the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry and, in particular, of Minister Vilayat Eyvazov himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 December, at the trial of activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, the state prosecutor asked to sentence him to 11 years of imprisonment The defence disagrees with this and intends to insist on the activist&#8217;s acquittal. The next hearing is scheduled for 6 January. *Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was arrested in December 2022 on charges of hooliganism 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-29876","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\/29876","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=29876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29877,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876\/revisions\/29877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}