Names of Convicts on Hunger Strike in Gobustan Prison Revealed

29 March 2007 14:05 (UTC+04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku / Т corr K. Zarbaliyeva / The names of the convicts who are on hunger strike in the Gobustan Closed Prison have been revealed.

The Penitentiary Service at the Ministry of Justice reported that Shakir Rzakhanov, Aly Guliyev, Dayanat Karimov, Elbrus Ibrahimov, Rahib Masimov, Ramil Gadirov, Yadigar Bahshaliyev and Chingiz Pashayev who are sentenced to life imprisonment demand that their sentences be reduced to 15 years of imprisonment. Rashad Jafarov who is also serving the same sentence is under protest but has not undergone the hunger strike.

The Penitentiary Service reported that the convicts are under medical supervision.

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