{"id":30055,"date":"2025-01-28T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=30055"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:46:09","slug":"activist-elshan-kerimov-sentenced-to-6-years-of-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/activist-elshan-kerimov-sentenced-to-6-years-of-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Elshan Kerimov sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ElshanKerimaov-520x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ElshanKerimaov-520x280.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ElshanKerimaov.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public activist Elshan Kerimov, charged with openly calling for forceful seizure of power, was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sentence was handed down&nbsp;on 28 January by the Baku Court for Serious Crimes presided over by Sabukhi Huseynov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecutor asked to sentence Elshan Kerimov to 7 years and 6 months of imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall that the activist was detained on 17 April this year in the village of Rustamly, Yevlakh region. The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor&#8217;s Office opened a criminal case against him under Article 281.1 of the Criminal Code (open calls for seizure of power by force).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 19 April, the Binagadi district court sentenced Kerimov to 3 months of imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In reality, Elshan Kerimov posted publications on social networks in defence of political prisoners &#8211; activists of the PPFA, members of other political parties, public figures and journalists arrested in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public activist Elshan Kerimov, charged with openly calling for forceful seizure of power, was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment. The sentence was handed down&nbsp;on 28 January by the Baku Court for Serious Crimes presided over by Sabukhi Huseynov. The prosecutor asked to sentence Elshan Kerimov to 7 years and 6 months of imprisonment. Recall [&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-30055","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\/30055","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=30055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30060,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions\/30060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}