Baku / 11.01.19 / Turan: Two protesters in Salyan demanding the release of blogger Mehman Huseynov were subjected to administrative arrest. This became known from the messages of users in social networks late on January 11.
Tariel Melikzadeh received 25 days, and Alizamin Salayev received 20 days of arrest for organizing an unauthorized protest.
Recall, on Friday, about 10 residents of the Salyan region came out with posters on the Baku-Salyan highway and chanted "Freedom to Mehman!". -0-
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