{"id":29880,"date":"2024-12-28T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=29880"},"modified":"2024-12-28T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:02:33","slug":"kanal-11-founder-sentenced-to-8-years-of-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/kanal-11-founder-sentenced-to-8-years-of-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kanal 11\u2019 founder sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/p03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29178\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 28 December, the&nbsp;Baku Court for Serious Crimes presided over by Azad Mejidov sentenced Teymur Kerimov, founder of Internet TV \u2018Kanal 11\u2019, to 8 years of imprisonment. Istek Totiyeva, who was prosecuted together with him in the same case, was sentenced to a suspended sentence with a two-year probation period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecutor asked to sentence Teymur Kerimov to 9 years and Istek Totiyeva to 3 years of imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerimov said that the charge was false and he was not guilty. His lawyers stated that they would appeal the sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* In December 2023, the Narimanov district court arrested Kerimov, charging him under Articles 182.2.1 of the Criminal Code (extortion by threats committed by a group of persons), 182.2.2 and 182.2.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local human rights organisations recognised Kerimov as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 December, the&nbsp;Baku Court for Serious Crimes presided over by Azad Mejidov sentenced Teymur Kerimov, founder of Internet TV \u2018Kanal 11\u2019, to 8 years of imprisonment. Istek Totiyeva, who was prosecuted together with him in the same case, was sentenced to a suspended sentence with a two-year probation period. The prosecutor asked to sentence [&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-29880","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\/29880","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=29880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29881,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions\/29881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}