On February 3 the group of young independent intellectuals organized the small demonstration near the monument of Mirza Alakbar Sabir to support Akram Aylisli . The number of Azerbaijani writers and intellectuals , including famous writer and screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov , also spoke out in defence of Aylisli . Leyla Yunus , the leading Azerbaijani human right activist , claimed that " Only Aylisli defends the honor and the dignity of our nation after the story of Ramil Safarov " . Ragıp Zarakolu , the leading Turkish human right activist and publisher who is well known for long faced legal harassment for publishing books about the Armenian Genocide , also supported Aylisli
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Akram Aylisli