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Political Prisoners

Gender
Name
Gender
Articles
Prison
Judge
Councel
Occupation
Mushfig Jabbar
Male
Conspiring to smuggle foreign currency; hiring workers without a labor contract; illegal entrepreneurship with significant income; large-scale money laundering by an organized group ; tax evasion by an organized group
Detained in Pre-trial Detention Center N1
Multimedia journalist, video editor at Toplum TV
Mushfig Jafarov
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, transfer, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in the village of Kurdakhani in the Sabunchu district of Baku.
a religious believer.
Mutallim Orujov
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, transfer, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Fahmin Humbatov
PFPA member
Nadir Eldar oglu Maharramov
Male
Gobustan closed prison
Nahid Gahramanli
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, transfer, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On March 9, 2023, Nahid Gahramanli was sentenced to four months of pretrial detention during the preliminary investigation. His pretrial detention was subsequently extended several times.
a member of the Muslim Unity Movement.
Namet Sakit oglu Israfilov
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, shipment, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Shalala Hasanova
a religious believer.
Namig Faig oglu Asgarov
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, transfer, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Javid Huseynov
member of the Muslim Unity Movement
Namig Faig oglu Asgarov
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, transfer, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Javid Huseynov
member of the Muslim Unity Movement
Namig Hadjialy oglu Shirinov
Male
Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, shipment, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
member of the Muslim Unity Movement
Nargiz Absalamova
Female
Smuggling, Art. 206.3.2. of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan
Detained in Pre-trial Detention Center N1
Journalist of the "Abzas Media"
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