The Ministry of National Security (MNS) detained on December 17 Elshana Mustafaoglu, a theologian, and on 19 December the court arrested him for four months, according to the site IlslamAzeri.az referring to the relatives of Mustafaoglu. However, the charges against him are unknown.
Mustafayev got his education in Iran, and then worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 he defended his thesis. In 2001, he created a public association "Spiritual purity", and in 2005 – a Research Center "New East".
Mustafaoglu for some time hosted a program on the ANS TV channel, headed the Media Academy at this channel.
In the last two years he worked on the scientific program in Norway, and returned to Baku in early 2014. In recent months, he has collaborated with the Office of Caucasian Muslims.
This structure has not commented on reports on arrest of Mustafaoglu.-05D-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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