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Political Prisoners

Gender
Name
Gender
Articles
Prison
Judge
Councel
Occupation
Anar Mammadli
Male
Smuggling, Article 206.3.2 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan
Detained in Pre-trial Detention Center N1
Human rights defender, head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre
Anar Oruj oglu Khalilov
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
a religious believer.
Anar Sholaliyev
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
Araz Fizuli oglu Hasanov
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. 2, Ganja
a religious believer.
Arif Fataliev
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.
Arif Nazir oglu Kazimov
Male
Gobustan closed prison.
Arshad Ibrahimov
Male
Article282.2.2 (request by threat, committed repeatedly)
Detained in Pre-trial Detention Center N1
Head of the website dunyaninsesi.az
Arzu Sayadoglu
Male
Article 206.3.2 of the Azerbaijani Criminal Code, which pertains to smuggling committed by a group of persons in collusion
Blogger
Asaf Akhmedov
Male
under Articles 193-1.3.2 (Legalization of property, committed on a large scale), 308.2 (Abuse of office, resulting in grave consequences) and 313 (Official forgery) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On April 9, 2025, the Binagadi District Court of Baku issued a ruling: to satisfy the investigator's petition to select a preventive measure in the form of arrest and to apply a preventive measure in the form of arrest to Asaf Akhmedov for a period of 3 months and 4 days.
Pre-trial detention center #1 in the Kurdakhani settlement in the Sabunchu district of Baku
Head of the Ganja Regional Public Center
Asaf Sahib 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.
a religious believer
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