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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Presiding Judge Abid Abidinbayev made the decision in a court in the Azeri capital, Baku, on Thursday after Anar Bayramli’s defense attorney, Anar Qasemlou, presented his defense of Bayramli.
During the hearing session, Qasemlou highlighted that there was no evidence to prove the false charges brought against his defendant, and that the testimonies of those posing as eyewitnesses contradicted those of each other.
He argued that Bayramli has been sentenced to jail purely in relation to his peaceful journalistic activities. Qasemlou stressed that he will do his utmost to obtain Bayramli’s acquittal and freedom.
Qasemlou also called on Azeri judiciary officials to release his defendant in a bid to lift Azerbaijan’s status prior to a Council of Europe report on political prisoners in the country, which is slated to be out in October.
On February 18, Azerbaijan’s police and plainclothes forces arrested Bayramli at his house on the bogus charges of “carrying illicit drugs,” which had been put in his pocket by the local police, who claimed to have arrested him on the street.
A great number of international institutes and organizations including Reporters without Borders, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, Baku’s Institute for Security and Freedom of Journalists, Journalists Rights Institute also in Baku, as well as Tehran-based Association of Muslim Journalists have emphasized that Bayramli has been arrested due to his professional activities and have called for his release.
Many Azeri personalities, scholars and party leaders have also said Bayramli’s incarceration proves the absence of freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, urging the Azeri government to exercise more tolerance toward journalists and end the repression against them.
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