Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. К.Zarbaliyeva / The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office has released information regarding the death of an inmate in Prison 1.
The prisoner, Gabil Tagiyev, injured his cellmate Galib Hanifayev. He later died from injuries sustained.
Tagiyev is serving a 12 year term in prison due to a range of crimes committed. Hanifayev was serving a nine year sentence due to various crimes and was sentenced by the Grave Court.
Nizami District Court has brought an action in accordance with Article 126.3 (body wounding causing death). However, Tagiyev denied information about the incident occurring due to drugs being illegally delivered to prison. The defendant stated that the incident happened due to a private conflict. Witnesses agreed that the relations between two prisoners was bad.