Rahim Gaziyev

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Rahim Gaziyev
Rəhim Qazıyev
Ali Masimov
Preceded byTahir Aliyev
Succeeded byDadash Rzayev
Personal details
Born (1943-02-17) February 17, 1943 (age 81)
Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union

Rahim Hasan oghlu Gaziyev (

Azerbaijani Defense Minister in 1992–1993, in the turmoil of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and later a political prisoner
.

Prior to the war

Gaziyev graduated from the

Lefortovo prison in Moscow. He was freed upon being elected to the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan later that summer, although his criminal case was never closed.[4] With the escalation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and Shusha
becoming one of the few remaining Azerbaijani strongholds in the region, Gaziyev took command of the city's defence in January 1992.

Office

After the resignation of President

Vank, 12 kilometres north of the province capital Stepanakert.[4][6] Contrary to his radical anti-Russian sentiment in the late 1980s, Gaziyev was now convinced in the necessity of partnership with Russia.[7] In November, the Azerbaijanis were dislodged from most of Mardakert. After Armenians started advancing into Kalbajar, the Popular Front, which had been in power since June 1992, issued a statement in which it blamed Rahim Gaziyev and Elchibey's official representative in Nagorno-Karabakh Surat Huseynov for treason and intentional surrender of Shusha in an attempt to restore Mutallibov as President and indulge Russia's geopolitical interests. Gaziyev was forced to resign in February 1993.[4]

After

Azerbaijan Defense Industry), infuriated Gaziyev verbally attacked Aliyev during a parliament session calling him a liar.[4] In an early 1996 interview, Gaziyev claimed having had a mutual agreement with Aliyev by which Gaziyev was to be appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan upon Aliyev's rise to power but was wronged for the sake of the latter's regionalist policies favouring natives of Nakhchivan.[8]

Conviction and later pardon

Now confronting Aliyev's powerful figure Gaziyev was officially convicted of treason in surrendering Shusha to Armenians. He was detained in jail in August 1993 and was to be tried in court in November but managed to escape to Moscow, followed by Surat Huseynov. There he declared his full support of ex-President Ayaz Mutallibov who had been living in exile in Russia since summer of 1992 and ironically whom Gaziyev helped to have removed from power just two years earlier.[9] On 16 April 1996 Prosecutor General's Office of Russia decided that Gaziyev (already sentenced to death in absentia in his home country) be deported to Baku[10] where his sentence was replaced by life imprisonment in 1998.

At the insistence of PACE, Rahim Gaziyev was pardoned and released in March 2005.[11] After his release, Gaziyev published several articles in an attempt to rehabilitate himself in the public eye but was taken no interest in.[4]

2020 arrest

On 13 July 2020, State Security Service and the Prosecutor General's Office released a joint statement, accusing Gaziyev of deliberately spreading "untrue information about the nature of the events (See July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes) on social network platforms", acting "to weaken the defense capabilities", and incite "riots and violent seizure of state power".[12] Gaziyev was detained as a suspect in a criminal case under Articles 281 and 282 of the criminal code.[13] Gaziyev's daughter Sevinj Jamilova responded to these allegations by saying that "these criminal codes have nothing to do with my father".[14] He was later released and placed under house arrest.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Azərbaycan Respublikasının müdafiə naziri haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI PREZİDENTİNİN FƏRMANI" [Order of President of Azerbaijan on Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Republic]. Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
  2. ^ "R. H. Qazıyevin Azərbaycan Respublikası Baş nazirinin birinci müavini—Azərbaycan Respublikasının müdafiə naziri vəzifəsindən azad edilməsi haqqında AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI PREZİDENTİNİN FƏRMANI" [Order of President of Azerbaijan on relieving Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Republic Rahim Qaziyev from his duties]. Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
  3. ^ a b Rahim Gaziyev. Labyrinth.ru
  4. ^ a b c d e End of the Second Republic Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine by Zardusht Alizadeh.
  5. ^ a b c The Black Garden by Thomas de Waal. Chapter 11
  6. ^ Aviation in Nagorno-Karabakh Archived 2010-04-28 at the Wayback Machine by Mikhail Zhirokhov
  7. ^ The Black Garden by Thomas de Waal. Chapter 13
  8. ^ Azerbaijan: Trials, Investigations and Arrests Archived 2017-01-10 at the Wayback Machine. Memo.ru
  9. ^ The Black Garden by Thomas de Waal. Chapter 17
  10. ^ Mutallibov and Gaziyev Detained Again by Dmitri Makarov. Argumenty i Fakty. 16 April 1996. Retrieved 19 September 2008
  11. ^ Political Prisoners Pardoned in Azerbaijan. BBC Russian. 21 March 2005. Retrieved 19 September 2008
  12. ^ "Former Minister of Defense Rahim Gaziev is detained". Contact.az. Turan İnformasiya Agentliyi. 13 July 2020. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  13. ^ Nasibli, Ismayil (13 July 2020). "Rəhim Qazıyev saxlanılıb və barəsində cinayət işi başlanılıb" (in Azerbaijani). Report Information Agency. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  14. ^ ""Təxribatda" şübhəli bilinərək saxlanılan Rəhim Qazıyevin qızı: "Atam nə çağırış edib ki?"". BBC Azerbaijani (in Azerbaijani). British Broadcasting Company. 13 July 2020. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  15. ^ "Рагим Газиев освобожден из-под стражи". Кавказский Узел (in Russian). 5 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
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