Khazar District Court, chaired by Judge Rashad Hasanov, considered and denied former Foreign Economic Relations Minister Nijat Guliyev’s request for early release, Nijat Guliyev’s lawyer Fuad Agayev told the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS). Nijat Guliyev was arrested on August 7, 2013. By the verdict dated April 2, 2014 of Absheron Regional Court, Nijat Guliyev was found guilty of committing a crime under Article 228.1 (illegal

Summary: Hearing 1  Fuad Agayev and Afgan Mammadov, the lawyers of the former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Nijat Guliyev, made speeches at the court hearing and asked for the discontinuance of the criminal case and Nijat Guliyev’s release;  Public prosecutor Mustajab Aliyev requested the rejection of the cassational appeal;  The Judicial Chamber upheld the decision of Sumgayit Court of Appeal. Supreme Court, chaired by judge