Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. К.Zarbaliyeva / Elchin Behbudov, the Chairman of the Anti-Torture Committee, reported that Gahraman Amirov, a prisoner kept in Prison 1, is threatening to commit suicide as a bartering tool to demand fair consideration of his case.
In the past, Amirov sewed up his own mouth, in a hunger strike, to protest the sentence passed by the Grave Court of Azerbaijan.
Amirov said that he has undergone torture in the Police Department of the Geychay region. Amirov denies his guilt and swears that Judges Nushaba Agayeva and Vakil Shukurov made an unfair decision.
On 17 August, Behbudov appealed to Zakir Garallov, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan, to investigate Amirov's case.