On Tuesday, a resident of the village of Arkivan in Azerbaijan's Masalli district, Sariya Zohrabova, held a picket in front of the Ministry of Justice in Baku to demand justice in the investigation into the death of her son, Turan reported.

The conscript, participant of the Karabakh war, awarded with a medal "For the liberation of Kalbajar" Ilkin Zohrabov died under unclear circumstances from a bullet shot in Karvachar, which the Azerbaijanis call Kalbajar. He was to be demobilized in eight days. Zohrabov, born in 2001, was supposed to demobilize in eight days. But on 22 March, 2021 he shot himself, - the military investigation says, - he was driven to suicide by torture of warrant officer Matlab Haciyev. The criminal case also contained other evidence of Haciyev's rude, physical abuse towards his subordinates. He was arrested and charged. The soldier's body was handed over to his family on 30 March. The deceased lay in a tent, in the snow, for eight days.

The family believes that Haciyev may be innocent of his son's death. As Sariya Zohrabova told Turan, the bullet entered her son's back, not his chest.

"We do not demand a mandatory conviction of Hajiyev. We want an honest investigation, identification of the cause of the child's death. The military prosecutor and the investigator are leading the case to suicide, but we do not believe in it. Let them return the case from the court for additional investigation," she said.

The trial in the Ter Tersky Military Court has been ongoing for 11 months. Witnesses to the soldier's death officers of the military unit do not come to court.

“ Our applications have been rejected. We demand that the case be returned for additional investigation, Araz Zohrabov,” the uncle of the murdered man, told Turan.

Turan contacted lawyer, public defender Yusif Aliyev, who sent the text of the appeal to the court to the editorial office. According to him examination of the body of the deceased refutes the version of the investigation. The bullet entry hole on the chest is larger than the exit hole on the back. So the bullet entered from the back. Suicide can't end his life like that.

There is no ballistic examination data, there is no bullet and shell casing from the scene, it is not clear from which weapon the shot was fired. The military unit claims that weapons are not recorded for Ilkin, although the soldier served at a combat post at a distance of 150 meters from the Armenian positions, went through the entire war and was awarded a combat medal.

The most suspicious is the inscription on the hand of the deceased, made with a pen. Allegedly, 11 days before his death, Ilkin wrote a will on his hand with a request to bury him next to his uncle's grave. The handwriting of the inscription on the hand of the deceased is different from the handwriting on his letters home, and the inscription was not made with the same pen that the deceased had. The investigation claims that there is a video in which a soldier writes this inscription on his hand. But this video is not in the criminal case, the public defender explained.