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-
Politics
-
On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
-
From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
-
President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
-
At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
Leave a review