On December 28, Baku Grave Crimes Court, chaired by judge Alisultan Osmanov, continued the trial of journalist Rauf Mirgadirov.   The hearing was held in public according to national legislation, which requires that hearings in which verdicts are announced must be held in open court.   Rauf Mirgadirov’s family, members of the public, and a number of media representatives attended the hearing.   The judge found Rauf Mirgadirov

The leader of the REAL Movement Ilgar Mammadov, who is serving sentence in Prison #2, has been put into solitary confinement for two days, reported his lawyer Fuad Agayev on May 15.     The reasons for this punishment have not been disclosed to his lawyer, who was also denied a meeting with Mammadov.   Agayev said that his purpose in meeting with Mammadov was to discuss inter alia defense tactics in relation to his Supreme Court cassation