{"id":30862,"date":"2025-06-25T04:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=30862"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:56:45","slug":"imprisoned-activist-ahmad-mammadli-at-risk-of-losing-eyesight-amid-torture-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/imprisoned-activist-ahmad-mammadli-at-risk-of-losing-eyesight-amid-torture-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned Activist Ahmad Mammadli at Risk of Losing Eyesight Amid Torture Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ahmad Mammadli<\/strong>, an imprisoned public activist and founder of &#8220;Yoldash Media,&#8221; faces the grave risk of losing his eyesight. This alarming news comes from the <strong>Committee for the Protection of Mammadli&#8217;s Rights<\/strong>, which has been vocal about his deteriorating health in detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Committee, a doctor who examined Mammadli in the pre-trial detention center confirmed the risk of him losing his vision. To counter this, the doctor emphasized the critical need for Mammadli&#8217;s immune system to remain robust. Consequently, he is currently receiving a <strong>high-calorie diet and vitamins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Committee alleges that Mammadli was subjected to <strong>torture<\/strong> upon his detention on May 6. They report that severe blows sustained on that day caused a <strong>serious injury to his eye<\/strong>. Over a month later, the affected eye still experiences <strong>blurry vision<\/strong>, and the alleged torture has severely weakened his immune system. Compounding these issues, Mammadli has undergone <strong>two previous eye surgeries<\/strong> and suffers from <strong>genetic asthma<\/strong>, which is causing him <strong>difficulty breathing<\/strong> in the prison environment. Given these dire circumstances, the Committee is urgently demanding his <strong>release to house arrest<\/strong>, arguing that the current prison conditions are unsuitable for his health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mammadli was detained on May 6, and a <strong>four-month pre-trial detention<\/strong> order was issued against him on May 8. He stands accused under articles of the Criminal Code related to <strong>deliberately causing serious harm to health and hooliganism<\/strong>. However, Mammadli vehemently <strong>denies these charges<\/strong>, asserting that he is being <strong>punished for his past socio-political and current journalistic activities<\/strong>. His family further claims that his arrest followed his filming of the trial of imprisoned politician Tofiq Yaqublu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) generally denies allegations of torture against detainees, local human rights defenders report that there are currently <strong>375 political prisoners in Azerbaijan<\/strong>, a claim the government refutes, stating that individuals are held accountable for specific actions. Mammadli himself has a history of confrontation with authorities; in 2022, as chairman of the now-disbanded D-18 Movement, he was administratively arrested for 30 days for allegedly disobeying a lawful police order, an arrest he attributed to his advocacy for peace and criticism of President Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Mammadli, an imprisoned public activist and founder of &#8220;Yoldash Media,&#8221; faces the grave risk of losing his eyesight. This alarming news comes from the Committee for the Protection of Mammadli&#8217;s Rights, which has been vocal about his deteriorating health in detention. According to the Committee, a doctor who examined Mammadli in the pre-trial detention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1047],"class_list":["post-30862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","tag-editor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862","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=30862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30864,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862\/revisions\/30864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}