Baku: The trial in the criminal case initiated by the State Security Service (DTX) against Abdulla Aliyev, who was accused of attempting to commit terrorism in Azerbaijan, has concluded, APA reports. Today, at the Baku Court on Grave Crimes chaired by Judge Aygun Qurbanova, the defendant’s lawyer made a closing statement. He requested an acquittal for his client. In his final statement, Abdulla Aliyev expressed remorse for his actions. The lawyer’s motion was not granted, and the court delivered its verdict.
According to Azeri-Press News Agency, Abdulla Aliyev was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He will serve his sentence in a high-security correctional facility. It should be noted that he was charged under Articles 28, 214.2.1 (terrorism committed by a group of persons acting in prior conspiracy, by an organized gang or a criminal association (criminal organization)), 28, 214.2.3 (terrorism committed using firearms or objects used as weapons), 28, 214.2.6 (terrorism committed on the grounds of religious enmity, religious radicalism, or religious fanaticism), and 218.2 (participation in a criminal association (organization), including participation in the union of organizers, leaders, or other representatives of organized groups) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
According to the information, he was apprehended in the act thanks to the professionalism of the State Security Service while planning an attack on a Jewish synagogue using a Molotov cocktail. It should be recalled that 18-year-old Abdulla Aliyev, a resident of Sumgayit with ties to the terrorist organization ‘ISIS-Khorasan,’ was preparing to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack against the ‘Baku Mountain Jews Synagogue’ located in central Baku.