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Court rejects petition to release bloggers on bail

Court rejects petition to release bloggers on bail
# 22 December 2009 09:27 (UTC +04:00)
Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. On Tuesday, Baku Appeal Court began first survey of appeal by the arrested bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizadeh. According to APA, defense lawyers asked the court to allow journalists to cover the trial, but their petition was rejected.

The lawyers also asked the court to change the decision about the pre-trial detention of the bloggers and to release them on bail of 5 000 AZN for each of them. The court left for consultation and then announced that the petition was not accepted.

The process will be continued on January 8.

Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizadeh face with the charges under article 127.2.3 (deliberate harming the health) and 221.2.1 (hooliganism) of the Criminal Code. Sabayil district court sentenced Emin Milli to 2 years and 6 months and Adnan Hajizadeh – to 2 years of imprisonment.


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