Fuad Gahramanli

Fuad Gahramanli is the Deputy Chairman of the Whole Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, an opposition political party in Azerbaijan.

Career

In 2010, he was sued by five other candidates for political office for allegedly slandering them. In April 2011, Gahramanli participated in an anti-government political protest. Police arrested him and several other leading protesters. In October he received a suspended four-year sentence, which was reduced to a two-year house arrest. He was arrested again and was charged with inciting racial hatred in December 2015. His arrest came upon the release of another political prisoner, Leyla Yunus. He previously served time in jail in 1998 for an article that criticized the government of President Heydar Aliyev. The document was uncovered in a police raid on the headquarters for the newspaper Chag. He was convicted of violating Article 63-1 on 27 November 1998 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison but he was released following pressure from the US government.