Azerbaijan, Baku, November 17 / Trend , M.Aliyev /
Since the creation of the first blog in 1992, the author of which was considered Tim Berners-Lee, the understanding of "case of bloggers" appeared in the court practice of many countries. According to the Multidisciplinary Research Group at the Washington University World Information Access (WIA), as a result of studying the blogosphere over the past five years, around 64 bloggers have been arrested and convicted over the world.
Amongst those dissatisfied with their bloggers there were even "advanced" democracies: Canada, USA, France, United Kingdom. The average imprisonment time for offender blogger is 15 months. The most impressive sentence is 8 years in prison. Bloggers are made criminally responsible for slander, insults, for calls to change the constitutional order throughout the world, relying solely on the record in their online diaries.
President of the Social Developments Fund of Azerbaijan, a political scientist Rashad Rzaguliyev told Trend , commenting on the court decision with regards to Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizadeh
On November 11, Sabail district court of Baku sentenced Emin Milli to 2.5 years, Adnan Hajizadeh to two years in prison. They were accused under articles 221.2.1 (hooliganism) and 127 (intentional infliction of less serious harm to health) of the Criminal Code.
"In our particular case, Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizadeh were prosecuted due to entirely different article. The usual story of domestic mordoboem, which happened in one of the Baku restaurants, alleged in court practice as banal hooliganism, shamelessly turned into a political dramedi (for the uninitiated: on the television slang - a synthesis of drama and comedy).
It's a shame that two young educated and socially non-dangerous person, one of whom I am well aware, are in jail due to a court decision - it is too tough and uncompromising, he said. But the most shame is that these two young people in strange ways sew the label of "political prisoners", "prisoners of conscience" for several foreign and international institutions, which undoubtedly hurts the democratic image of the country," said Rzaguliyev.
According to him, the wave of foreign intervention since the first days of investigation of the incident has led to the issue that the authorities got into a difficult situation. "It is strange that European politicians also can not accept the fact that the colonial "democracy" does not and can not exist in Azerbaijan. The pressure on the sovereign government of Azerbaijan, especially in such comic form, only gives the opposite effect.
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