Sumgayit Court of Appeal upholds verdict on blogger Jamil Mammadli

Today the Sumgayit Court of Appeal today rejected complaint of blogger and reporter Jamil Mammadli and upheld the sentence of the Khachmaz District Court, which sentenced him to 1.5 years of corrective labor.It should be reminded that the journalist was convicted at the suit of the head of the Executive Power of the Guba region Ziyaddin Aliyev.The head of Guba accused Mammadli under Article 147.2 of the Criminal Code (slander in the commission of a serious ...