fuserlimon

First 2 months I spent in solitary confinement. Next 5 in a two person cell with bunk beds. This happened in a detention center (in USA this is called a Jail). After that was moved to a correctional facility number 14 (a prison). It was located 100km away from where my family lived.

The facility was surrounded by 3 stone quarries, so the whole day huge machines would be cutting through the rock making a horrible noise akin to the one on horror films. The byproduct of stone cutting is white dust, and with a little wind the dust was up in the air, in our food, eyes, ears, beds etc. You would wake up and your face will be covered in dust. This led to a lot of TB cases among inmates. We slept in barracks; my particular one had 100 people staying in a one big room, with bunk beds lined up next to each other very closely.

Food was inedible, made from old and spoiled products. For example when you ate the rice or some other porridge you could break your tooth on stone that was in your plate. The soup tasted like there was meat in it somewhere, but it was nowhere to be found. You could rarely find a chicken skin in the soup etc. I received food and ingredients from home, and cooked for myself. If I didn’t, I would die…

There were regular outages with water. No heating, ventilation or AC in the buildings. During the hottest days of July I couldn’t sleep for a week, because the moment I would go to sleep my body temperature would rise, my face would sweat and the sweat burned my face so I would wake up.

Hope this answered your question, please ask more if you wish.

you have a heroic login name

yes, It was all accounted for. Some of it disappeared (other inmates or guards would take cigarettes etc.) other than that the whole chunk came untouched. When you are sent a package, they put together a list of all things in it. When you receive it, you check everything against the list and then sign off on the dotted line.

See, change is hard to measure. Most of the activists in Azerbaijan have lost hope for any positive change. We do not hope we persevere. I did this not because I thought that it might change something. I did this because I think that it is my duty as an active and privileged citizen to speak out when something is very wrong with your society. If had to do this all over again, I would spend more time, on making more videos, so when I am jailed, I won’t be sorry for all the time that I have lost.

Cheers. In Azerbaijan the real heroes are dead.