Approximately at 16:00 the employees of the Ministry of National Security (MES) detained Ruslan Asad, an employee of the U.S. Baku office of the National Democratic Institute, NDI.
According to people close to Assad, he was stopped when leaving the office; two persons in the civilian clothes, posing as employees of the Ministry of National Security, put him in a car and took to the Department to Combating Organized Crime.
Currently, Ruslan is being questioned in that department, earlier another activist of the NIDA, Rashad Hasanov, was taken there.
Both of these young men took part in the protest on March 10 in the center of Baku. Then Ruslan was arrested, and then released.
The U.S. Embassy has been informed of the detention of the employee of the NDI.
About 7 pm Ruslan Asad üas released but he refused to comment on details of his detaining.-16D-
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