Search in the apartment of Rauf Mirkadirov in Ankara

The questioning of the journalist's wife lasted for about five hours in the embassy building, At the same time she did not have a lawyer. All this time her young daughter was with her. Babakhanova refused to sign the protocol of interrogation, demanding to provide her with a ​​lawyer.

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On Sunday afternoon a search was conducted by the Turkish security forces in an apartment  of  the detained journalist Rauf Mirkadirov in Ankara, where live the spouse and children of  the journalist. His wife, Adela Babakhanova told that  11 people arrived  to their flat; she  was told that a search was conducted in accordance with the instruction of Azerbaijani authorities.

During a search, a number of documents, and electronic media , including  his daughter’s tablet  were seized. After a search  came a representative of the Azerbaijani Embassy and asked  the journalist’s wife about her husband's activities.

After a search of Adel Babakhanova was invited to the Embassy of Azerbaijan, where she gives testimony to investigators, who arrived in Baku.

A columnist  of "Mirror" newspaper, Rauf Mirkadirov, accused of espionage in favor of Armenia, was deported from Turkey on April 19. On his arrival in Baku he was arrested at the airport.

His wife and two children remained in Turkey, where the  journalist has been living for  the last three years.-0-