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Court investigation on the case of 31 Azerbaijanis accused of having links with international terrorist network finalized

08 June 2010 12:06 (UTC +04:00)

Judge Azer Orujov, who presided over the trial, announced that the court finalized the investigation. The judges left for consultations.

The verdict will be announced on June 16.

Prosecutor demanded 15-year sentence for Asif Emikishilli, Rashid Mustafayev, Emil Shikhaliyev, 14-year sentence for Mahir Allahverdiyev, Firdovsi Guliyev, 13-year sentence for Vasif Omarov, Elmaddin Farajov, Faig Jafarov, 12-year sentence for Ibadet Alazov, 11-year sentence for Kamran Ilyasov, Teymur akhundov, Amil Khalilov, Elnur Gaziyev, Elshan Druskar, 10-year sentence for Mehdi Karimov, Mahir Abdullayev, Tural Hasanov, Jeyhun Aliyev, Zeynal Akbarov, 8-year sentence for Alkaram Mammadov, Rashad Nabiyev, Vusal Isayev, 7-year sentence for Vugar Abdullayev, Namig Mammadov, Ramil Farzaliyev, 6-year sentence for Arif Ibrahimov, Elchin Canagayev, Rashad Mahmudov, Fuad Movsumov, Emin Jami, 4-year sentence for Bakhtiyar Mustafayev.

The hearing will continue in the second half of the day.

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.

Samir Mehdiyev was detained in Pakistan and brought to Azerbaijan.