The Uzbekistani Appellate Court has upheld the judgment of the first instance court to sentence Uzbekistani Armenian Aramayis Avagyan to seven years in prison, Radio Liberty reports.

Avagyan denies his involvement in Islamic extremist activities, violating the Uzbekistani constitution and a number of other charges brought against him.

Aramayis Avagyan’s mother, Flora Sakunts, told Radio Liberty that during the court hearing Avagyan denied all the charges and showed the signs of bodily injuries, which he said he had sustained during the preliminary investigation in the prison, where the inspectors forced him to give confessions through tortures.

As reported earlier, since 4 September last year, Aramayis Avagyan, 33, and his friends were kept in the pre-trail detention facility of the National Security Service. The Uzbekistan authorities accuse Avagyan of having ties with ISIS terror group.

However, Aramayis Avagyan didn’t plead guilty to any of the points of the indictment.

The trial into Avagyan’s case started on January 6 of this year.