Baku/25.10.21/Turan: Employees of the website maide.az and members of the Spiritual Workers of Azerbaijan Association Jalal Shafiyev, Gadir Mammadov, Ali Musayev and Tamkin Jafarov, detained on October 19, have been released.
Turan was informed about this by their relatives.
According to them, the believers were interrogated by the State Security Service (SGB). However, they themselves were not informed of the details of the case in which they were involved.
Recall that the Shiite theologian Sardar Babayev, who was also detained on October 19, was charged under Art. 274 (treason) of the Criminal Code.
It was not possible to get comments from the State Security Service. —21B-
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