Many lawyers, journalists, human rights defenders and public figures the government dislikes, including Muslims and Jehovah's Witnesses exercising their freedom of religion or belief, have been jailed.
Source/Credit: Forum 18 News Service
By Felix Corley | May 14, 2015
Two Jehovah's Witness prisoners of conscience in Azerbaijan, Valida Jabrayilova and Irina Zakharchenko, have had their NSM secret police pre-trial detention extended, Forum 18 News Service has learned.
Five Sunni Muslim prisoners of conscience - Imam Mubariz Qarayev, Habibulla Omarov, Salim Qasimov, Eyvaz (last name unknown) and Azad Gafarov - also in NSM pre-trial detention are apparently about to face criminal trial.
All seven prisoners of conscience were arrested for allegedly distributing religious literature that has not passed state censorship.
The eighth prisoner of conscience in NSM pre-trial detention, Shia Muslim theologian Jeyhun Jafarov held for alleged treason, continues to be imprisoned.
The trial of another group of five Sunni Muslims, who were in 2014 held in the NSM prison, continues in the capital Baku.
Elsewhere, Shia Muslim prisoner of conscience Taleh Bagirov is challenging his transfer to Qobustan Prison where torture has been documented.
Many lawyers, journalists, human rights defenders and public figures the government dislikes, including Muslims and Jehovah's Witnesses exercising their freedom of religion or belief, have been jailed.
All these prisoners of conscience are being denied visits by relatives and friends, as well as religious literature.
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