Bayram Mammadov

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Turkish Prosecutor General closes investigation into death of Bayram Mammadov

by Ismi Aghayev

•1 min read

The Turkish Prosecutor General’s Office has published the results of the forensic medical examination into the death of activist Bayram Mammadov. According to the examination, Mammadov died by drowning — the investigation into his death has officially been closed. Mammadov went missing in Istanbul on 2 May. Two days later, Turkish police informed his friends — who had reported his disappearance — that he had drowned. The 27-year-old Azerbaijani citizen was a prominent critic of the Azerbaija

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Turkish prosecutors release CCTV footage of Bayram Mammadov prior to his death

by OC Media

•2 min read

CCTV footage depicting the last whereabouts of Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov has been released to lawyers representing the family by the Turkish Prosecutor’s Office. The 27-year-old pro-democracy activist went missing in Istanbul on 2 May and on 4 May Turkish police informed friends that he had drowned. The release of the footage has been a key demand by many of those who have raised questions over the circumstances surrounding his death. According to lawyers representing Mammadov’s

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Calls for answers over death of Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov in Istanbul

by Narmin Shahmarzade

•3 min read

Azerbaijani and Turkish activists are demanding answers over the death in Istanbul of former ‘prisoner of conscience’ Bayram Mammadov. Mammadov went missing on 2 May and on 4 May, Turkish police informed friends that he had drowned. Mammadov, 27, was a prominent government critic who served three years in prison on drug charges that rights groups say were fabricated. He was arrested after defacing a statue of former president Heydar Aliyev with the words ‘Happy Slave Day’ a day before the bi

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Pardoned ‘political prisoner’ re-arrested in Azerbaijan

by Kamran Mahmudov

•3 min read

Bayram Mammadov, who was widely recognised as a political prisoner before being released two weeks ago in a presidential amnesty, has been re-arrested in Azerbaijan. On 30 March, Mammadov was charged with resisting police and sentenced to 30 days in jail by the Sabunchu District Court. His father told the BBC’s Azerbaijani service that he did not know the exact reason for his son’s arrest. ‘It’s said he allegedly scolded a policeman… And they gave him 30 days’, he said. Mammadov, a

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Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court upholds 10-year ‘drug conviction’ for activist

by OC Media

•2 min read

Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov, who was arrested on drug charges after painting controversial graffiti on a statue of Heydar Aliyev in Baku. Mammadov has began a hunger strike, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayil has reported. Mammadov intends to appeal his conviction to the European Court of Human Rights, Caucasian Knot reported. ‘We have already sent a complaint to the Strasbourg Court about the arrest, which has been acce

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Human rights activist appeals conviction to Azerbaijan Supreme Court

by OC Media

•2 min read

Azerbaijan’s highest court, the Supreme Court, decided on 4 April to hear an appeal from human rights activist Bayram Mammadov. Mammadov was sentenced last year to 10 years in prison on charges of ‘drug trafficking’. The official date of Mammadov’s hearing has not yet been set, but Caucasian Knot quoted Mammadov’s lawyer as saying that the hearing is likely to be held in May or June. Mammadov and his fellow activist, Giyas Ibrahimov, were arrested on 10 May 2016, after painting controvers