Al-Qaeda members, others sentenced in Baku

The leader of the group, Arif Gadzhiyev, was given a life sentence. Emil Gadzhiverdiyev, a member of the group, was sentenced to ten years in jail, while other members of the group were sentenced to from five to seven years.

They were convicted of committing terrorist attacks, illegal weapons possession, murdering a police officer in Baku and other serious crimes, a lawyer for one of the defendants, Elman Osmanov, told Interfax.

The court proved that members of the group, which included citizens of Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey and Yemen, were trained at a camp near the Pankisi gorge in Georgia.