Azerbaijani political prisoner Abbas Huseynov has been tortured in a prison (popularly known as the Gobustan prison), in which he is held and which belongs to the Azerbaijani Justice Ministry's Penitentiary Service. Abbas Huseynov is a deputy to the leader of the Muslim Unity movement, Taleh Baghirzadeh. The torture was carried out by the prison governor, a deputy prison chief and several guards, Huseynov told his defence lawyer Yalchin Imanov. The lawyer told us about what happened in the notorious high-security prison for especially dangerous criminals, which is located 70 kilometres outside Baku.

Abbas Huseynov says that on 20 July, after the Court of Appeals in Baku upheld his sentence (20 years' imprisonment), he was taken back to the Baku detention centre and immediately placed in the punishment cell for seven days. But two days later, on 22 July, he and Jabbar Jabbarov, another defendant in the so-called Nardaran case, were suddenly taken to the Gobustan prison.