Azerbaijani opposition party chairman not released

Arrest as a preventive measure towards the Chairman of the National Statehood Party of Azerbaijan (NSPA) Nemat Panahli, measure has not been cancelled.

Today Panahli's complaint to cancel the Nasimi District Court's decision dated Jan.10 was considered under Judge Vagif Mursaqulov's chairmanship, Baku Appeal Court told Trend.

By the Court's decision the complaint was not satisfied and the decision on arrest as a preventive measure was kept in force.

Baku resident Eldaniz Rzayev called the Interior Ministry's service 102 and informed that Nemat Panahli and Ceyhun Farzullayev had threatened him on the Mirali Gashqai street of the Nizami district.

Based on the complaint, the abovementioned persons were arrested.

A criminal has been filed under the Article 221.3 (hooliganism committed with application of a weapon or subjects, used as the weapon) of the Criminal Code.


/Trend/