New appeal launched on behalf of Farhad Aliyev

Former Interior Ministry official Haji Mammadov testified last month at his ongoing trial that a gang he headed killed opposition journalist Elmar Huseynov in March 2005 at Aliyev's behest.

As Day.Az reported on August 23, the appeal suggests that Mammadov implicated Aliyev in that murder on orders from a third party, and recalled that Aliyev himself responded with a statement in which he claimed he was warned that Huseynov's death would be attributed to him unless he pled guilty to the coup charges against him.

The appeal noted that Azerbaijani NGOs have appealed to President Ilham Aliyev to give the green light for a new investigation, with the participation of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, into Huseynov's killing, and it appealed to the ambassadors to monitor that investigation and the case against Farhad Aliyev.

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