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Court grants Eyyub Karimovâ€™s petition

08 December 2009 15:03 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov â€“ APA. Yasamal district court has today held the next hearing on the suit filed by Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov against editor-in-chief of the Femida 007 newspaper Eyyub Karimov, APA reports. Khagani Tagiyev presided over the hearing. The court decision on Karimovâ€™s petition to send his articles for examination was announced.

The court passed a decision to appoint legal, linguistic examination of the articles. The hearing has been postponed until the opinion on Karimovâ€™s articles published in the Azadlig and Femida 007 newspapers is publicized.

At the previous hearing Eyyub Karimov asked to send his articles for examination.

Interior Minister Ramil Usubov filed a suit against Eyyub Karimov on article 147.2 (the slander, which is connected with accusation of committing serious or especially serious crime) of the Criminal Code. Eyyub Karimovâ€™s articles about the Interior Ministry published in the Azadlig and Femida 007 newspapers caused this.