Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 6 / Trend , K.Zarbaliyeva/
An Azerbaijani court rejected an action of the chief editor of Tolishi Sado newspaper who was charged with treason against the Ministry of National Security (MNS) due to violating right to intellectual property.
The Baku Appeals Court decided to keep the Sabail District Court's resolution in power at a meeting on Feb. 6, Tolishi Sado Chief Editor Novruzali Mammadov's Lawyer Ramiz Mammadov told Trend on Feb. 6.
The MNS officials confiscated Mammadov's processor as material evidence while arresting him on Feb. 16 in 2007, the lawyer said.
Mammadov's roughly ten scientific works was deleted when they returned the processor, he added.
The chief editor appealed to the court the MNS to compensate material and moral damage which he underwent as a result of violating right to intellectual property.
The lawyer said that they will lodge a cassation appeal with the Azerbaijani Supreme Court against the Appeals Court's decision.
The former department head of Linguistics Institute at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the editor-in-chief of the Tolishi Sado newspaper, Novruzali Mammadov, and head of the newspaper, Elman Guliyev, were arrested in early Feb. 2007.
Mammadov was sentenced to 10 years and Guliyev in 6 years in jail.
They are charged with treason (Article 247) and instigating national, religious and racial trouble (Article 283).
Mammadov was moved to from Bayil remand prison 1 to prison 15 on Jan. 14, 2009.
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