4 ATAKISHI v. AZERBAIJAN JUDGMENT been fabricated in one day and that the allegations of his alleged wrongdoings were false and based on lies. He further complained that the Court of Appeal had not heard any of the complainants. As to the “complaints by voters”, the court had not even attempted to verify whether they had been authored by existing persons. Moreover, despite the fact that H.S. had sent a retraction of his accusations to the ConEC and the Court of Appeal and had personally attended the hearing, the court had refused to hear him. 20. On 5 November 2005 the Supreme Court dismissed the applicant’s appeal and upheld the Court of Appeal’s judgment of 31 October 2005. It found that the Court of Appeal had not committed any breaches of substantive or procedural law and that the applicant’s arguments were not supported by the material in the case file. II. RELEVANT DOMESTIC LAW A. Electoral Code 21. According to Article 88.1 of the Electoral Code, the election programmes of candidates, and their pre-election speeches and campaign materials distributed through the media, must not contain statements inciting to the capture of State power by force, change to the constitutional system by force, or violations of the country’s territorial integrity, or statements insulting the honour and dignity of citizens. 22. Article 88.2 of the Electoral Code prohibits candidates from abusing the right to campaign in the media by inciting social, racial, ethnic or religious hatred and hostility. 23. Article 88.4 of the Electoral Code of 2003 provides as follows: “88.4. Candidates ... are prohibited from gaining the support of voters in the following ways: 88.4.1. giving money, gifts and other valuable items to voters (except for badges, stickers, posters and other campaign materials having nominal value), except for the purposes of organisational work; 88.4.2. giving or promising rewards based on the voting results to voters who were involved in organisational work; 88.4.3. selling goods on privileged terms or providing goods free of charge (except for printed material); 88.4.4. providing services free of charge or on privileged terms;