The human rights activist Elchin Namazov has been arrested for 15 days. This administrative punishment was imposed on him on November 25 by the decision of the Khatai District Court of Baku, which found him guilty of not subordinating police. This was announced by his brother Akram Namazov.
At the same time, the office of E. Namazov was searched and the documents were confiscated, including judicial records, in which he was held as a defender.
The arrested is contained in the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and he is not allowed a lawyer. All this gives reason to believe that law enforcement agencies may prepare criminal charge against him at the end of the term of his administrative arrest.
Namazov is a former lawyer and among his clients there were political activists.
In 2011, he was expelled from the Bar, when defending the rights of the youth activist of the party Musavat, Rufat Hajibeyli, who was arrested for taking part in an anti-government protest in Fountain Square in Baku on 2 April of the same year.
After that, Namazov was engaged in human rights protection and had access to trials in civil cases as a legal representative. -06D--
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