Azerbaijan: Secret jailing of Jehovah's Witnesses extended for 3 more month, Muslims' ordeal continue

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The two - 54-year-old IrinaZakharchenko (a disabled widow) and 38-year-old Valida Jabrayilova - face up to five years' imprisonment for offering religious literature to nearby residents.

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Source/Credit: Forum 18 News Service
By Felix Corley | September 9, 2015

A court in Azerbaijan's capital Baku ruled that two female Jehovah's Witnesses - imprisoned for seven months already at the secret police Investigation Prison - can now be held for a further three months, Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18 News Service.

Ten months is the maximum they can be held in pre-trial detention. The two - 54-year-old Irina Zakharchenko (a disabled widow) and 38-year-old Valida Jabrayilova - face up to five years' imprisonment for offering religious literature to nearby residents.

Forum 18 was unable to reach Judge Rauf Ahmadov to find out why he considered further imprisonment necessary.

Two of five Sunni Muslims imprisoned for selling uncensored religious literature have lost their appeals, while the third appeal - by Imam Mubariz Qarayev of Baku's Lezgin Mosque - is due to resume on 11 September.

Also the long-running trial of five other Sunni Muslims for a religious meeting appears to be close to concluding. "You almost never get an acquittal here," those close to the case told Forum 18. "But if they are to be convicted, we hope that at least they get suspended sentences."


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