Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court upholds association head Zamin Zaki’s jail term
The court leaves the Ubuntu association head’s seven-year-and-three-month sentence in place as other defendants in the wider case await verdicts.
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The court leaves the Ubuntu association head’s seven-year-and-three-month sentence in place as other defendants in the wider case await verdicts.
Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court has upheld an existing prison sentence of seven years and three months for Zamin Zaki, a social affairs expert and head of the Ubuntu association, JAMnews reported on 23 October. Zaki is among the defendants in a broader criminal case against non-governmental organisations, or NGOs.
The charges against Zaki concerned money laundering, abuse of office and official forgery over the handling of a grant worth 50,000 manats, approximately $29,000. Zaki denies the charges.
His lawyer said the allegations had not been proven and argued that receiving a grant should not, in any case, carry criminal liability.
Around 50 people are involved in the broader NGO case, including staff from international organisations that provided grants in Azerbaijan. According to JAMnews, none of the defendants admit guilt, and they describe the prosecution as politically motivated.
Some defendants have already been sentenced, while others are still awaiting verdicts.
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