Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. К.Zarbaliyeva / The detained chief editor of the Azerbaijani Ideal newspaper was released. On 26 Dec, the appeal by the chief editor Nazim Guliyev was considered in the Baku Appeal Court.
Guliyev was sentenced to two years and six months of imprisonment due to the defamation and insult, after the decision of the Nasimi District court of Baku.
The judge Gail Mammadov reported to the Trend agency that the chief of the Republican Department of the State Traffic Police Station, Ramiz Zeynalov withdrew the lawsuit, so the sentence against Guliyev was canceled.
Guliyev was arrested by Zeynalov's lawsuit.