Azerbaijani ombudsperson issues statement on Orkhan Zeynalov`s case
Baku, October 18 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijani Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsperson) Elmira Suleymanova has issued a statement with respect to protection of rights of Azerbaijani migrant Orkhan Zeynalov, who was arrested by Russian special police forces on October 15 on suspicion of killing Moscow resident Yegor Scherbakov.
In the statement, the Ombudsperson criticizes the way the Azerbaijani suspect was arrested. The statement says serious violations were committed while arresting Zeynalov.
Suleymanova notes that the Russian Federation, being a member of the United Nations and the Council of Europe, has appropriate obligations as a participant of the basic international legal acts on human rights, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Convention against Torture.
The statement says that “Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibit torture, and inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment”.
“Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognizes and protects a right to justice and a fair trial. The article imposes specific and detailed obligations around the process of criminal trials in order to protect the rights of the accused and the right to a fair trial. It establishes the Presumption of innocence and forbids double jeopardy,” the Ombudsperson says.
The statement describes “illegal, violent, inhuman and degrading” treatment of Zeynalov as “discriminative”. The Ombudsperson emphasizes that all international legal acts prohibit discrimination based on ethnicity. “Therefore, this issue caused the international protest,” the statement says.
The Ombudsperson also criticizes an arrest of more than thousand migrants in Moscow, and inhuman and degrading treatment of them.
Suleymanova also calls on Russia`s Federal Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and other relevant authorities to investigate the case and to undertake necessary measures to ensure rights of Orkhan Zeynalov and other Azerbaijani migrants in accordance with the Law of the Russian Federation on Human Rights Commissioner and other legislative acts, as well as international agreements.
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