Relatives of defendants in "Ganja case" hold protest action in Baku

At the protest action held in the yard of the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA), relatives of those accused under the "Ganja case" have demanded the release of the defendants.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 3, 2018, an assassination attempt was committed against Elmar Veliev, the head of the city administration of Ganja. Law enforcers treated the attempt as a terror act, and detained Yunis Safarov, a native of Ganja, as a suspect of committing the crime. After that, mass protests began, where protesters expressed dissatisfaction with the work of Veliev himself. On July 10, 2018, about 200 people took part in the protest action in Ganja and demanded to investigate not only the attackers' actions, but also Veliev's work. When dispersing the action, two policemen perished.

On December 20, during the consideration by the Baku CoA of complaints lodged by a group of defendants in the "Ganja case", their relatives held a protest action, the "Turan" News Agency reported on the same day.

The action took place in the CoA's yard, "Contact.az" has added on December 20.

The convicts' relatives protested against the prosecution of their children, treating the charges put forward against them as trumped-up, the "Contact.az" reports.

During the protest, its participants demanded to release the arrested persons, the "Massa.az" reported on December 20.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 21, 2019 at 06:00 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.