On 1 March, the Supreme Court chaired by Judge Ingilab Nasirov heard APFP activist, Karabakh war disabled Asif Yusifli’s cassation appeal, and reduced the political activist’s jail sentence from 6 years to 5 years, lawyer Fakhraddin Mehdiyev has reported. ...

• Arif Aliyev and Samir Mustafayev withdrew their initial appeals; • Rasim Aliyev’s legal heiress Teyfura Aliyeva demanded the heaviest penalty for the convicts; • Convict Elshan Ismayilov pleaded not guilty of the journalist’s death. On 1 March, Baku Court of Appeal held...

On 1 March, Ikram Rafig oglu Rahimov, the head of realliq.graveaz website who had been sentenced to one year in prison under Article 147.2 (libel, involving an accusation of a grave or particularly severe crime) of the Criminal Code, was...