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Political Prisoners

Gender
Name
Gender
Articles
Prison
Judge
Councel
Occupation
Rovshan Seyfali oglu Aliyev
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.
Penal Colony No. 6 in the village of Boyuk Shor in the Nizami District of Baku.
member of the Muslim Unity Movement
Rovshan Sharifov
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.
theologian
Rufat Faig oglu Gurbanov
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.
Elmin Rustamov
a believer.
Rufat Gurbanov
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.
a religious believer.
Rufat Mailov
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 believer.
Rufat Safarov
Male
178.3.2 (fraud committed with large-scale damage) and 221.1 (hooliganism)
Detained in Pre-Trial Detention Center N1
Human rights defender
Ruhulla Masim oglu Novruzzade
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 January 31, 2023, he was detained by civilians without a warrant or witnesses and taken to an unknown location. His relatives later learned that a criminal case had been opened against R. Novruzzade. On February 1, 2023, the Surakhani District Court of Baku ordered four months of pretrial detention as a preventive measure to continue the investigation. His pretrial detention was subsequently extended several times during the investigation.
Director of the Mizan Educational Center
Ruslan Adil oglu Vakhabov
Male
Under 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 September 23, 2023, the Nizami District Court of Baku ruled to grant the investigator's motion for pretrial detention and to order pretrial detention for Ruslan Vakhabov for four months.
On January 12, 2024, the Baku Grave Crimes Court sentenced him to 4 years' imprisonment.
Elnur Nuriyev
Activist of the Public Council of the Talysh People of Azerbaijan
Ruslan Guliyev
Male
Article 221.2.1 (Hooliganism, i.e., intentional actions that grossly violate public order, express clear disrespect for society, accompanied by the use of violence against individuals or the threat of violence, as well as the destruction or damage of another's property, committed by a group of individuals) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
a resident of Imishli.
Ruslan Izzatli
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
The founding board member of Third Republic political initiative
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