
Azerbaijani judge gives soldier who raped boy lesser sentence due to ‘suffering from homosexuality’
The judge concluded that the accused suffered from ‘a homosexual mental illness’.
The judge concluded that the accused suffered from ‘a homosexual mental illness’.
One of those detained was a local police officer — a second police officer reportedly fled the country.
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The court ruled the woman will begin serving her sentence only after her oldest child turns 14.
The three surviving children in the family have now been placed in foster care.
The 23-year-old was given only a suspended sentence as the judge considered the birth of their child to be a mitigating circumstance.
Police officers have been filmed attacking a 12-year-old boy in Northern Azerbaijan, with local reports indicating that the child, his father, and uncle, were all detained following the incident. On Sunday, footage surfaced on social media showing officers attacking a boy, identified as 12-year-old Deniz Aghayev, and his father, Sakhavat Aghayev, in the village of Vandam in Gabala District. In the video, a uniformed police officer is seen kicking Deniz Aghayev while he is on the ground, and