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Victim in “Tartar case”: “I was beaten with armature”

“For years, I have lived in my district as a traitor. I don’t take much risk going out. As soon as I say something to someone, that moment strikes me in the face that, “You are a traitor.” Today, I am still treated with suspicion, ”he said.

Attorney General’s office said in a statement issued this week that, Torture and ill-treatment of individual servicemen in criminal cases resumed in 2017 and exceeding official powers according to four people were arrested.

There are 281 victims in the Tartar case

A group of servicemen detained about 5 years ago are betraying the country, Armenian intelligence and was accused of collaborating with special services.

Later, there were allegations that these servicemen were tortured and that some of them died as a result of torture. A few years ago 10More than 0 servicemen were identified as victims, and some were officially confirmed dead as a result of torture, and some were acquitted.

It is stated in the February 9 statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office that, There are currently a total of 281 victims in the Tartar case.

“I would like to that, let them restore me to the army “

Turab Karimov said in an interview with BBC News in Azerbaijani that, The facts of torture in 2017 are a serious blow not only to himself, but also to his family and struck a moral blow.

Turab Karimov, who has a rank in the army, says he was charged six months before retiring. “I served in the military for 19 years and 6 months. 20 I do not consider him to have completed his annual military service according to I am also deprived of a pension. “

The former serviceman says that, He has been in the army since his youth: “I have supported my family with my military salary for many years. I have no additional skills or profession. She according to In addition to being recognized as a victim, I would like to be reinstated in the army, “Turab Karimov said.

The victim wants that, Even if he is not compensated, at least he should be reinstated and earn “halal money”.

Appeals were filed in 16 criminal cases

The Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement on February 9 that, Previously, they were prosecuted on charges of treason, but later this was not confirmed, leading to crimes against military service. according to Cases of certain procedural violations were revealed during the investigation of criminal cases against convicts.

The prosecutor’s office did not disclose the specific procedural violations, but said it had appealed to the courts in 16 criminal cases.

According to human rights activists, more than 100 soldiers and officers were tortured, 25 were sentenced to long prison terms, and at least nine died as a result of torture.

“I was beaten there with rubber and armature”

Namig Mustafayev, who is on the list of 163 injured servicemen, said that, In 2017, while working in the military unit N of Barda region, the leadership “played a role” in accusing him of “treason.”

According to him according towithout any military trial and or without the decision of the military prosecutor’s office.

Namiq Mustafayev says that, In May 2017 Yevlax When he was brought to the old military unit located in Aran settlement of the region, he saw the corps commander there. “Then they closed my eyes and let me into the room. There I was beaten with rubber and armature. Because they gave me electricity according to I have health problems now. ”

Namig Mustafayev told the BBC that, A few months after the torture, he was ordered to leave the army.

It was not easy for Captain Namig Mustafayev, who later returned to his Sheki region, to live here.

To the label of “traitor” according to, in the Sheki region where I live, I was ashamed to go out on my own. She according to I came to Baku for a year and lived away from my acquaintances as a fugitive. ”

Human rights activist Rasul Jafarov says that, not only the perpetrators of torture, but also the accomplices and instigators involved in the group crime and Along with the organizers, they called for the involvement of military prosecutors in the investigation.

According to him according toWill pay attention to the objective conduct of the investigation in the “Tartar case”.

The Prosecutor General’s Office said in a recent statement that, more in-depth investigation of torture and The process of interrogating the victims is underway to “identify the real culprits.”

24 hoursPublished the article with reference to the BBC.



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