Today the Baku Court of Appeals releasedAdnan Hajizade 10 months early on parole. He was arrested and charged with hooliganism along with fellow blogger and youth activist Emin Milli in July 2009, when they appealed to police as victims of an assault. They were later convicted and sentenced to 24 and 30 months’ imprisonment respectively. Hajizade and Milli are widely considered to have been arrested as a result of their civic activism and video blogging. Shortly before their arrest, Hajizade had appeared in a satirical online video which criticised the Azerbaijani government’s high expenditure on two imported donkeys from Germany.
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Today the Baku Court of Appeals releasedAdnan Hajizade 10 months early on parole. He was arrested and charged with hooliganism along with fellow blogger and youth activist Emin Milli in July 2009, when they appealed to police as victims of an assault. They were later convicted and sentenced to 24 and 30 months’ imprisonment respectively. Hajizade and Milli are widely considered to have been arrested as a result of their civic activism and video blogging. Shortly before their arrest, Hajizade had appeared in a satirical online video which criticised the Azerbaijani government’s high expenditure on two imported donkeys from Germany.
Source: http://azerireport.com
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