{"id":185537,"date":"2017-07-13T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/trial-of-co-founder-of-tbilisi-clinic-begins-accused-i-am-aliyevs-personal-hostage\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:21:41","slug":"trial-of-co-founder-of-tbilisi-clinic-begins-accused-i-am-aliyevs-personal-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/trial-of-co-founder-of-tbilisi-clinic-begins-accused-i-am-aliyevs-personal-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Co-Founder of Tbilisi Clinic Begins, Accused: &#8220;I am Aliyev&#8217;s personal hostage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/88883\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88883\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  A preliminary hearing was held on July 12 in Tbilisi in the case of Ferman Jeyranov \u2013 an Azerbaijani surgeon and the co-founder of the Lancet clinic in the Georgian capital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jeyranov was arrested in May of this year after local law enforcement agencies received a tip-off from the Azerbaijani government that the Lancet clinic was performing illegal organ transplants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is being defended by a group of lawyers under the direction of Gela Nikolashvili.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the trial, Jeyranov stated that he is the \u2018personal prisoner of Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev\u2019. Jeyranov says that the Azerbaijani government believes he is a direct financier of what a recent<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/azeridaily.com\/analytics\/28665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    article<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  labeled as the \u2018underground\u2019 political scene of Azerbaijani activists living in Tbilisi.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I am Aliyev\u2019s personal hostage and prisoner. I am a doctor and have no relation to politics. When a patient comes to the clinic, I&#8217;m not interested in his political views. The Georgian prosecutor&#8217;s office is following me for political reasons, on Aliyev&#8217;s orders. These [accusations] have no political basis\u201d, Jeyranov said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jeyranov\u2019s lawyers appealed to the court to commute his arrest to home arrest, however the court rejected his petition arguing that Jeyranov is a flight risk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to local Georgian media, two patients of the Lancet clinic have died after botched organ transplant operations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In addition to Jeyranov, other Azerbaijani, high-profile public figures have been arrested or kidnapped in recent months, including Deputy Chairwoman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan<br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/en\/article\/customs-service-releases-info-on-arrest-of-gozel-bayramli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    Gozel Bayramli<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  , and investigative journalist<br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/en\/article\/mukhtarli-charged-with-smuggling-in-baku-after-being-kidnapped-in-tbilisi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    Afgan Mukhtarli.<br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary hearing was held on July 12 in Tbilisi in the case of Ferman Jeyranov \u2013 an Azerbaijani surgeon and the co-founder of the Lancet clinic in the Georgian capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":88883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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