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Saturday, 09 July 2005
AZERBAIJANI COURTS ANNUL VERDICT AGAINST ANOTHER OPPOSITION LEADER
By empty (7/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Baku\'s Nasimi District Court annulled on 8 July the guilty verdict handed down in October 2004 to DPA First Deputy Chairman Serdar Djalaloglu on charges resulting from the clashes in Baku between police and opposition protesters in the wake of the disputed October 2003 presidential election. Djalaloglu is the fifth of the seven oppositionists sentenced in that case to be exonerated. However, the Sabail District Court on 8 July declined an appeal by National Democratic Movement Chairman Iskander Hamidov to annul the charges of abuse of power and embezzlement on which he was sentenced in 1995 to 14 years\' imprisonment.
Baku\'s Nasimi District Court annulled on 8 July the guilty verdict handed down in October 2004 to DPA First Deputy Chairman Serdar Djalaloglu on charges resulting from the clashes in Baku between police and opposition protesters in the wake of the disputed October 2003 presidential election. Djalaloglu is the fifth of the seven oppositionists sentenced in that case to be exonerated. However, the Sabail District Court on 8 July declined an appeal by National Democratic Movement Chairman Iskander Hamidov to annul the charges of abuse of power and embezzlement on which he was sentenced in 1995 to 14 years\' imprisonment. Hamidov was pardoned and released from jail in December 2003. (Turan)