AhlulBayt News Agency: Sabuhi Salimov, a member of the Azerbaijan Islamic Party, has died of a heart attack in court following a 53-day hunger strike in protest against his illegal detention by the dictator regime of the Ilham Aliyev.
Salimov died on 2 March, reportedly shortly after the Baku Court of Appeal upheld his conviction.
Salimov was illegally detained by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service in October 2021. On 11 November 2022, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison on alleged charges of treason.
He was found guilty of treason – espionage for Iran’s special services, and for carrying out the instructions of the people included in the leadership of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC / SEPAH).
His family said that Salimov had been on hunger strike for 53 days, and on dry hunger strike for the last seven. They added that he had stopped his protest on 1 March as a result of serious health issues.
‘Sabuhi had a heart operation a few years ago. But his death was caused by an unjust court decision’, one member of his family said.
‘The reason for Sabuhi's arrest was that he burned the flag of Israeli regime, asked for freedom for al-Quds and Karabakh, and held remembrance events for Imams at his home’, said the unnamed relative. ‘He protested the injustice of the courts in this country with his hunger strike at the cost of his life.’
A spokesperson for the Muslim Unity Movement, a movement closely allied with the Islamic Party, told Turan that Salimov began his hunger strike in protest against his illegal charges, and that he died after the court announced that it would uphold the previous decision.
‘Sabuhi shouted, protested, and claimed that the decision had been “ordered [from above]”. In this situation, he had a heart attack and died behind bars in the courtroom’, said the spokesperson.
The authorities have not commented on the case.
The majority of Azerbaijanis are Shia Muslims and, as elsewhere in the region, expressions of religion are on the rise following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its atheist ideology.
The regime of Ilham Aliyev the President of Azerbaijan has accused religious leaders of trying to overthrow the state and the majority of political prisoners in the country, according to human rights observers, are imprisoned for religion-related offenses.
It seems that the repressive regime of Ilham Aliyev is taking its last breaths and in near future the liberation of Azerbaijan will happen from the Zionist-American mercenaries soon.
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Salimov died on 2 March, reportedly shortly after the Baku Court of Appeal upheld his conviction.
Salimov was illegally detained by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service in October 2021. On 11 November 2022, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison on alleged charges of treason.
He was found guilty of treason – espionage for Iran’s special services, and for carrying out the instructions of the people included in the leadership of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC / SEPAH).
His family said that Salimov had been on hunger strike for 53 days, and on dry hunger strike for the last seven. They added that he had stopped his protest on 1 March as a result of serious health issues.
‘Sabuhi had a heart operation a few years ago. But his death was caused by an unjust court decision’, one member of his family said.
‘The reason for Sabuhi's arrest was that he burned the flag of Israeli regime, asked for freedom for al-Quds and Karabakh, and held remembrance events for Imams at his home’, said the unnamed relative. ‘He protested the injustice of the courts in this country with his hunger strike at the cost of his life.’
A spokesperson for the Muslim Unity Movement, a movement closely allied with the Islamic Party, told Turan that Salimov began his hunger strike in protest against his illegal charges, and that he died after the court announced that it would uphold the previous decision.
‘Sabuhi shouted, protested, and claimed that the decision had been “ordered [from above]”. In this situation, he had a heart attack and died behind bars in the courtroom’, said the spokesperson.
The authorities have not commented on the case.
The majority of Azerbaijanis are Shia Muslims and, as elsewhere in the region, expressions of religion are on the rise following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its atheist ideology.
The regime of Ilham Aliyev the President of Azerbaijan has accused religious leaders of trying to overthrow the state and the majority of political prisoners in the country, according to human rights observers, are imprisoned for religion-related offenses.
It seems that the repressive regime of Ilham Aliyev is taking its last breaths and in near future the liberation of Azerbaijan will happen from the Zionist-American mercenaries soon.
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