Baku’s Khatai District Court has ordered four months of pretrial detention for five men held over a mass brawl at a cafe that left one person dead.
The Khatai District Court in Baku has ruled on the case of several men detained after a mass brawl at a cafe that resulted in one person’s death. The court granted a request from investigators and ordered the pretrial detention of Kamran Afandiyev, Mikayil Ismayilov, Ramil Dadashov, Eldar Eldarov and Hasan Zulfigarov for four months.
The five men have been charged under several articles of the Criminal Code. Specifically, they face charges under parts 1 and 2 of Article 218, as well as sections 4.1 and 4.3 of Article 234, along with the corresponding versions of these articles combined with Article 29, which covers attempted crimes.
It had previously been reported that documents seeking a pretrial detention measure against those detained in connection with the incident had already been submitted to the Khatai District Court for review. At that stage, the detainees had also been charged under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code.
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