Isakhan Ashurov

Isakhan Gara oglu Ashurov (Azerbaijani: İsaxan Qara oğlu Aşurov; August 1, 1955, Bolnisi Municipality, Georgian SSR — June 22, 2012, United States) was an Azerbaijani lawyer. From 1996 onward, he practiced law and defended the rights of many political prisoners and “prisoners of conscience”.

Biography Isakhan Gara oglu Ashurov was born on August 1, 1955, in the village of Talaveri in the Bolnisi district of Georgia.

In 1972, he graduated from secondary school in Talaveri and the same year entered the law faculty of Azerbaijan State University named after S. Kirov, graduating in 1977. , as well as a number of political prisoners, including journalist Eynulla Fatullayev (arrested in 2007) , writer Rafiq Tağı (arrested in 2007) , blogger Adnan Hajizade (arrested in 2010) , and former minister of economic development Farhad Aliyev (arrested in 2005).

He was a member of the Mejlis of the Musavat Party and headed its Law and Justice Committee. He was also the chairman of the League of Independent Lawyers. On October 7, 2003, on the eve of the presidential elections, while traveling to Masallı for a meeting between Isa Gambar (leader of the Musavat Party) and voters, he was forcibly pulled out of his car by police near Biləsuvar and severely beaten.

He died in the United States on June 22, 2012, after a prolonged illness.

He was married and had four children. In 2013, the prize was awarded to Hilal Mammadov, the imprisoned editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tolishi Sado (“Talysh Voice”) , and in 2014 to Yadigar Sadigov, the imprisoned adviser to the chairman of the Musavat Party.