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Azerbaijan solves 2001 murder case

The suspect has been detained and remanded in custody as the investigation continues.

Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office says investigators have solved the murder of a woman in Baku in 2001. The suspect had previously been convicted of intentional murder.

Source: Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan

A prosecutor’s office building in Baku.
Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced that a 2001 murder case had been solved. Illustrative photo. Photo: Interfase / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Azerbaijan’s prosecution and internal affairs authorities have solved a murder committed in 2001. The investigation was reopened into the intentional killing of Haghigat Mammadova, born in 1961, in Baku’s Nasimi district on June 30.

Investigative and operational measures, interviews and analysis of forensic examination results helped establish the circumstances of the crime.

Evidence has raised reasonable suspicion that Rovshan Zeynalov, born in 1976 and previously convicted of intentional murder, deliberately killed Mammadova, who was manifestly unable to defend herself.

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Zeynalov was detained by police on October 20, 2026, and handed over to investigators. The prosecution detained him as a suspect in the criminal case.

On October 22, he was charged under Article 120.2.9 of Azerbaijan’s Criminal Code. A Nasimi District Court ruling placed him in custody. The preliminary investigation is continuing.

Translated from Azerbaijani using artificial intelligence. Source: Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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