Kenan Gasymly , Mejid Marjanly and Ulvi Hasanly, activists of NIDA ad Free Youth movement, have been taken hostage by police. The movement demands their immediate release, reads the statement of the organization submitted to Turan.
Emil Bagirov, another activist, has been detained with them, but he was later released.
The statement reads that on Sunday evening they were driven away from the Nizami subway station police department and their whereabouts is still unknown. The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not provide any information.
"Taking hostage of the NIDA activists is being going on since March 2013, which is a repression of the Azerbaijani authorities against progressive youth.
The last detention was another wave of the repressions," reads the statement.
"Such steps before the presidential elections is another blow at the negative image of the Azerbaijani authorities."
The statement demands to put an end to the repressions and release all the detained and arrested young activists.-0-
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