Araz Aliyev's wife forces Interior Ministry to acknowledge her husband's arrest
Baku/25.12.23/Turan: Gulara Ismayilova, the wife of political activist Araz Aliyev, staged a protest in front of the Interior Ministry on 24 December.
Standing in front of the MIA building, she held up a banner with the inscription: "Where is Araz Aliyev?". She started chanting this slogan and addressing the leadership of the Interior Ministry.
She was detained by police officers and taken to the 9th police station of Sabail district. On leaving the station, she told reporters that she had been warned that the protest was illegal. As for her husband's fate, she was told that it would be made public.
A few hours after the action, the Interior Ministry announced that Araz Aliyev had been arrested for 25 days for 'petty hooliganism'. However, the Interior Ministry "forgot" to say what it was and where it happened.
Recall that on the evening of 23 December, the co-founder of the platform "Third Republic" Araz Aliyev lost contact. At the same time, the spokesman of the "Third Republic" platform Akif Gurbanov was tracked down.
For twenty-four hours, the Interior Ministry did not acknowledge Araz Aliyev's detention and only announced his arrest after a public protest by his wife.
The persecution of the founders of the "Third Republic" began after they declared the need to achieve the abandonment of authoritarianism in Azerbaijan and the transition to the Parliamentary Republic and real democracy.
In the founding documents of this political platform it is noted that with the coming to power of Heydar Aliyev in 1993, the decline of the Second Republic began and the regime of authoritarianism was established.
The Third Republic should return Azerbaijan to the bosom of democracy. -02B-
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