Fuad Gahramanli
Fuad Gahramanli was the Deputy Chairman of the Whole Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, an opposition political party in Azerbaijan.
Career
[edit]In 2010, he was sued by five other candidates for political office for allegedly slandering them.[1] In April 2011, Gahramanli participated in an anti-government political protest. Police arrested him and several other leading protesters. In October he received a suspended four-year sentence, which was reduced to a two-year house arrest.[2] He was arrested again and was charged with inciting racial hatred in December 2015. His arrest came upon the release of another political prisoner, Leyla Yunus.[3] He previously served time in jail in 1998 for an article that criticized the government of President Heydar Aliyev. The document was uncovered in a police raid on the headquarters for the newspaper Chag. He was convicted of violating Article 63-1 on 27 November 1998 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison but he was released following pressure from the US government.[4][5][6]
In 2019 Fuad Gahramanli resigned from his seat as the deputy chairman after the domestic violence allegations made by his daughter Seljan Yaghmur. Allegations were followed by a scandalous divorce.
References
[edit]- ^ "Opposition parliamentary candidate sued by rivals". News.az. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
- ^ "Azerbaijan: Opposition activists sentenced over peaceful protests". Amnesty International.
- ^ "Azerbaijan frees top rights activist Leyla Yunus". AFP.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "AZERBAIJAN". Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media & Society.
- ^ Inside Central Asia, Issues 205-306. BBC.
- ^ "CPJ urges release of journalist Fuad Gahramanli". Committee to Protect Journalists.
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