Ruslan Amirov Arrested (UPDATED)

On Tuesday, trade union activist Afiyaddin Mammadov testified at the Baku Serious Crimes Court and linked his arrest to trade union activities. Mammadov recalled that after a protest by food delivery couriers in front of the Baku Police Headquarters on August 1, 2023, three trade union activists were arrested. So, on August 4, Elvin Mustafayev was arrested, and on the 11th, Ayhan Israfilov. Mammadov himself was also subjected to administrative arrest in August.

After the second Karabakh War in 2020, the remains of 600 people were found in the discovered mass graves, Seljan Familzade, an employee of the Investigative Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan, stated at a briefing on Tuesday. According to her, the remains of 124 people were discovered in 2022, 133 in 2023 and 48 in 2024. The samples were sent for genetic testing to identify biological samples from family members of the missing. To date, the identities of 73 missing persons during the First Karabakh War have been identified, whose remains have already been identified.

The head of the German delegation to PACE, Frank Schwabe, sharply condemned the arrest of human rights defender Anar Mammadli in Baku. The arrest of Vaclav Havel Prize winner in the field of human rights Anar Mammadli makes it impossible for Azerbaijan to return to PACE. " “There is no way back to the Parliamentary Assembly for Azerbaijan. Not now and not in January,” he wrote on his account on the “X” platform.

French Ambassador Anne Boillon returned to Baku after a two-week absence. She was recalled by the French president "for consultations" due to the sharp deterioration of relations between Baku and Paris. France accused Azerbaijan of "actions detrimental to bilateral relations."