{"id":42421,"date":"2026-02-05T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42421"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:30:50","slug":"a-verdict-handed-down-for-those-accused-of-plotting-an-assassination-attempt-on-a-religious-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42421&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A verdict handed down for those accused of plotting an assassination attempt on a religious figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The final court hearing was held in the criminal case against Agil Aslanov and Jeyhun Ismayilov, who were detained during a State Security Service (SSS) investigation. They were accused of plotting a terrorist attack against a member of one of the religious communities operating in Azerbaijan, <a href=\"https:\/\/oxu.az\/ru\/kriminal\/v-azerbajdzhane-vynesen-prigovor-licam-obvinyaemym-v-podgotovke-pokusheniya-na-religioznogo-deyatelya\">oxu.az<\/a> reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The verdict was announced at the Sumgayit Court of Grave Crimes, presided over by Judge Nuraddin Huseynli. According to the court&#8217;s ruling, Agil Aslanov was sentenced to 17 years in prison, and Jeyhun Ismayilov to 14 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final court hearing was held in the criminal case against Agil Aslanov and Jeyhun Ismayilov, who were detained during a State Security Service (SSS) investigation. They were accused of plotting a terrorist attack against a member of one of the religious communities operating in Azerbaijan, oxu.az reports. The verdict was announced at the Sumgayit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42422,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42421\/revisions\/42422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}