Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. K.Zarbaliyeva / Protesting against pressure several prisoners of the Gobustan prison inflicted themselves physical injuries.
The informative sources reported to the Trend Agency that Akif Hajibaliyev and Rauf Eyvazov, sentenced to life imprisonment, cut their veins.
Several prisoners cut their veins in throat. The reason for incident was pressure on prisoners by the chief of the prison, Alizadeh Huseyinov, as well as Tofik Aslanov and Aydin Gaytemirov, the employees of the prison.
The Department on connection with community of the Penal Service at the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has reported that they will clarify a question on 17 August.