Mammadov also worked at the Nasimi Institute of Linguistics of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and headed a Talysh cultural center, which was closed after his imprisonment.
[2] In June 2008, trial in the Grave Crimes Court of Azerbaijan, without participation of lawyers, Mammadov's family and the press,[5] announced the verdict against him and responsible secretary of Tolishi Sado Elman Guliyev.
Herkel said that he, together with the newly appointed PACE rapporteur on political prisoners Christopher Strasser, got acquainted with Mammadov's case, and that he would raise the issue at a meeting with president Ilham Aliyev.
[13] On July 27, 2009 Mammadov was transferred to the hospital of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan, but was still deprived of duly qualified medical aid.
[15][16] In the period of Mammadov's consequence his sons Emil and Kyamran were repeatedly abducted for short times, physical and moral pressure was used against them.