CoA refuses to reconsider Rasim Aliev's murder case

The appeals against the verdict of the first-instance court were submitted both by the defendants and the parents of the journalist assassinated in Azerbaijan. The preliminary session of the Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the motion on reconsideration of the case; the examination of the merits is scheduled for June 10.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 1 a court in Baku sentenced the five figurants in the murder case of Rasim Aliev to the terms from nine to thirteen years in prison. The defendants Elshan Ismailov, Jamal Mamedov and Arif Aliev partly admitted their guilt, while the defendants Samir Mustafaev and Kenan Madatov claimed their innocence. The injured party disagreed with the court judgement, because the doctors who had treated Aliev, were not brought to liability.

The Baku CoA held a preliminary hearing on the murder case of journalist Rasim Aliev on May 27. The complaints against the verdict of the first-instance court, filed by the defendants and parents of the assassinated journalist, were rejected. The CoA refused to return the case to the court and hold a repeated hearing without a partial repeated judicial investigation, as claimed by both parties, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.