Biography Bakhtiyar

Azerbaijani political activist, head of the Institute of Public Policy. Known to criticism of the Azerbaijani authorities in international forums. He was nominated by a candidate in the Azerbaijani Parliament. He was repeatedly subjected to detention and arrest. In the year with a gold medal he graduated from the Agdash private Turkish secondary school. He graduated from the bachelor's applied mathematics of the Baku State University and the magistracy at the University of Khazar Baku.

In the year he spoke at one of the plenary meetings of the Session of the UN General Assembly. He graduated from John F. Kenned Harvard University in the year of the John Harvard School of Management. In the same year, he became the co -founder of the youth movement of Azerbaijan “Positive Changes”. Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev - the head of the Institute of Public Policy, created in the year 2.

Political activity and persecution in the year Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev ran for elections to the National Assembly of Azerbaijan. According to the official figures of the CEC of Azerbaijan, he scored voices and took 3rd place. During the parliamentary elections of the year, Gadzhiev published video materials exposing falsifications on social networks. On his page, Gadzhiev urged Bakintsev to take part in the protest.

We urge you not to use strength against your people and together to build a fair, free and happy society in Azerbaijan, ”wrote Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev. Gadzhiev himself said that the real reason for his arrest is connected with his social and political activity 4. Amnesty International recognized Gadzhiev as a “prisoner of conscience”. In the year he was parole. The release took place a few days before the arrival of Hilary Clinton in Baku, with which Gadzhiev had a meeting 5.

In April, Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev was abducted near his house in Baku. They put a bag on his head and took him in an unknown direction. The activist said that the abductors demanded to abandon the accusations of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan and released him after beating and several hours of bullying 6. In August, Gadzhiev was detained for several hours. After the release, he again announced the beating and requirements to remove posts in social networks about senior persons in Azerbaijan.

Gadzhiev convened a press conference, at which he decided to abandon Azerbaijan 7. The charges brought by Bakhtiyaru Gadzhiev relate to the incident, which occurred on October 15 in court, which examined the dispute between him and Ulvia Muradova about the slander. The activist has been accused under articles on hooliganism and disrespect for the court of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

He faces a punishment of imprisonment for up to three years. Gadzhiev rejected the accusations, saying that he was being persecuted for political activities, including criticism of the authorities in international forums 8., on a new charges, the activist threatens to prison a long -term hunger strike in protest against the arrest of Gadzhiev, which he stopped by the insistence of elderly parents and taking into account the publication of the public.

However, on January 9, Gadzhiev resumed a hunger strike after the next refusal of the court to transfer it under house arrest. On the same day, January 13 of the year, the administration of the Baku Business Center Caspian Plaza refused to lease the Institute of Public Policy, as well as the human rights organization "Protection Line" and the Center for Legal Initiatives, which jointly rented the office.

Human rights activists associated the eviction of organizations with pressure on the lessor after the arrest of Gadzhiev. The lawyer Zibeid Sadygova, who visited Gadzhiev on the day of the hunger strike, reported a deterioration in his condition. The penitentiary service indicated that it is located in the medical and sanitary part of the pre-trial detention center under the supervision of doctors.

From the moment of entering the pre -trial detention center in December, it has lost more than 16 kg. The defense filed a fourth petition for the transfer of an activist under house arrest. With an appeal to the authorities of Azerbaijan, to free Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev on February 14, on the day of his hunger strike, American senators Ben Cardin and Dick Durbin turned.

On the day of the hunger strike, on February 16, Gadzhiev, in protest against restrictions in the hospital, moved to a dry hunger strike. Gadzhiev explained the decision to abandon the water with the restrictions in the hospital of the penitentiary service. The overseer was assigned to Gadzhiev to constantly follow him. Lawyer Agil Laji said that a psychological pressure was on Gadzhieva: "The warders torment him with questions, do not allow him to sleep, violate peace, including TV to a loud sound.

He said that if the warders are removed, psychological pressure will stop, then he will stop a dry hunger and continue to refuse food." The activist was forcibly taken to court contrary to his request not to do this, the lawyer said. The meeting was held against the background of a protest rally, at least five participants of which were detained, three of them were left for the night in the police.

He drank a quarter of a glass of water in the presence of a lawyer Rovshana Ragimli.However, the activist intends to continue the hunger strike until satisfying his claims. On the 51 day, Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev stopped the hunger strike, taking into account the numerous appeals of family members, friends and the public. He will continue his struggle in the legal field.

This was reported by his lawyers on February 28. They noted that Gadzhiev is under constant psychological pressure and needs serious rehabilitation. The conclusion and attempt to discredit on March 1 of the year, the court upheld the decision on the arrest of Hajiyev until the end of April. In February, Telegram spread materials in Azerbaijani, containing fragments of Gadzhiev’s personal correspondence with photos and video images of the activist himself and his interlocutors - young women, including journalists and activists.

According to Gadzhiev, most of the materials were falsified, some materials were ten years ago. He believes that correspondence and images were seized using the PEQASUS spy program, and the investigation uses these materials to discredit it. At the request of Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, lawyers turned to law enforcement agencies. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs rejected the involvement of power structures in the spread of personal information about Hajiyev.

The department also reported complaints "from several women regarding" archiving "Gadzhiev information" and announced a corresponding investigation. At the end of March, Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, through the defenders, handed over to the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. In the appeal, Gadzhiev asked the head of state to "assist in liberation from custody." According to lawyer, Agil Laja, according to decisions related to a preventive measure, the court of appeal is the highest authority, and its decision cannot be appealed.

The European Court of Human Rights adopted a complaint about the arrest of Gadzhiev. The new accusation on June 16, Gosche Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, was charged with new entrepreneurship, falsification of documents and smuggling. His lawyer Elchin Sadygov believes that the new articles of the accusations are related to the human rights activities of Gadzhiev. Human rights activists and experts associated a new charge with Gadzhiev Grants from the European human rights organization.

They fear that the case of Gadzhiev will become a precedent to start the persecution of other activists and human rights defenders of similar accusations. Gadzhiev rejected these accusations, calling them far -fetched and politically motivated. According to new accusations against Gadzhiev, which concern crimes of an economic nature, there is no need to maintain a detention, ”his lawyer noted.

However, on July 6, the Court of Appeal in Baku did not satisfy the complaint about the extension of the arrest Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev. Protection promised to appeal this decision in the appeal instance. In protest, Gadzhiev announced a hunger strike. It was the third hunger strike, it lasted ten days. The end of the investigation on November 13 of the year of the year in the case of Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev was completed.

He was charged with eight articles of the Criminal Code, on which he threatens up to 12 years in prison. Gadzhiev considers all the accusations fabricated and completely rejects them, his defense said. Lawyers believe that the charges against Gadzhiev are deprived of legal grounds. Obviously, Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev is a political prisoner, ”the lawyer of the activist Agil Laji told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Speaking in court, the defendant rejected all the accusations.