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Court continues hearing on case of 31 persons accused of having links with international terrorist network

10 February 2010 12:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ramil Mammadli â€“ APA. The Court of Grave Crimes held hearing on the case of 31 Azerbaijanis, who are accused of setting up a radical religious group, having links with the international terrorist network and committing a number of grave crimes, APA reports. Azer Orujov presided over the trial. Defendant Zeynal Akbarov gave testimony. He agreed only to one of the accusations, rejected the others.

â€œRussia is an aggressor state. Russians occupied Azerbaijan and committed savagery against the Muslims living here. Muslims must not bear this and must fight against Russians â€“ giours. Therefore, I accepted the proposal to participate in the battles against Russians,â€ said defendant Emin Jami.
Jami did not confirm the testimony he had given during the initial investigation in the National Security Ministry.

Mahir Abdullayev did not admit the accusation that he had participated in the illegal armed units, he said he had undergone physical and moral pressure during the initial investigation.

Defendant Bakhtiyar Mustafayev said he worked in a hospital in Baku.
â€œIlgar Mollachiyev was brought to me being wounded. Ilgar Mollachiyev did not want me to treat him. So, they took him away,â€ he said.

Defendant Firdovsi Jafar Guliyevâ€™s lawyer Yusif Karimov petitioned for eliminating charges of robbery, blackmail, terrorism, attempt to murder. The court did not consider the petition.

The hearing will continue on February 23.

According to the indictment, the group having links with the international terrorist network set up an illegal unit and planned actions against the state. The head of the group Azer Misirkhanov, aka Abdulla, once participated in special exercises and battles with illegal armed groups in various conflict zones. He was detained while illegally crossing Azerbaijanâ€™s state border in 2001 and sentenced. After the term of his sentence expired, and sentenced. After the term of his sentence expired, Azer Misirkhanov left to participate in the terrorist actions against anti-terror coalition forces. The members of this armed group organized hiding of Samir Mehdiyev, aka Suleyman, one of the heads of the â€œForest brothersâ€ armed group, who was wanted for the terror attack in Abu Bakr mosque on August 17, 2008. The group also planned to explode Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline. A great deal of munitions was confiscated from them.

The defendants faced charges under articles 279.1 (creation of armed formations or groups, which are not provided by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic, and also participation in their creation and activity, supplying them by weapon, ammunition, explosives, military engineering or military equipment), 29, 214.2.1 (attempt to a terror attack committed on preliminary arrangement by group of persons, by organized group or criminal community), 214.2.3 (attempt to a terror attack committed with application of fire-arms or subjects used as a weapon), 228.2.1 (illegal purchase, transfer, selling, storage, transportation or carrying of fire-arms, accessories to it, supplies (except for the smooth-bore hunting weapon and ammunition to it), explosives on preliminary arrangement by group of persons), 229.2.1 (illegal manufacturing of fire-arms, supplies to it, ammunition, explosives, and also repair of fire-arms on preliminary arrangement by group of persons), 181.2.1 (burglary), 206.3.2 (smuggling of weapons by a group of persons), 234.1 (illegal purchase or storage without a purpose of selling of narcotics or psychotropic substances in a quantity (amount) exceeding necessary for personal consumption), 120 (deliberate murder), 206 (smuggling), 185 (illegal occupation of automobile or other vehicle without a purpose of plunder), 318 (illegal crossing border) and 126 (deliberately inflicting serious bodily harm) of the Criminal Code.

Head of the group, Azer Misirkhanov aka Abdulla was killed in Afghanistan during the operations carried out by the US forces.