BAKU. Nov 5 (Interfax) - Three suspected organizers of an attempted terror attack at the 2012 Eurovision music contest in Baku could get life imprisonment, and the other suspects could each be sentenced to 15 years in jail, a Baku court said on Tuesday.
The trial is to last until November 12.
Forty suspects were arrested as part of an investigation and some of them are serving long prison terms already.
Media reports said earlier that the group planned to assassinate President Ilham Aliyev in April 2013 during his visit to a northwestern region of Azerbaijan.
Leader of the criminal group, Padarov, and several other members were eliminated in 2012.
A court in Baku sentenced the first four suspected terrorists to long prison terms before the Eurovision contest began.
All four were detained by the National Security Service on suspicion of plotting a terror attack before the Eurovision contest in Baku in May 2012.
It was established that the suspects were linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), known as Sepah. In compliance with the instructions received, they were to carry out terror attacks in different parts of Baku in order to incite panic.
Forty people suspected of plotting terror attacks were detained in Baku, Sumgait, Gyandzh, Gazakh, Zagatala, Shaki and Quba before the international music contest began.