Turgut Gambar threatenes with arrest (UPDATED)

 A member of the Board  of NIDA Movement, Turgut Gambar, was detained for several hours in the City Main Police Department of Baku, after having been arrested in front of the Baku Court of Appeal. "I was not told the reasons for detention, but was asked much about  Elgiz Qahraman ( the NIDA activist, was arrested  on August 12 on charges of drug trafficking), that is why we support him. They asked why we "are against the state," said Gambar.  Eventually, he was told that if it continues, then the next time he will be  arrested. "In fact, I was threatened with arrest,"  said Gambar, adding that he did not commit illegal acts. "We just stood in front of the Appeal Court, pending the decision of the fate of our friend, as it usually happens in all trials of activists," said Gambar.-06D-

2016 August 18 (Thursday) 16:17:50

A member of the NIDA Movement Turgut Gambar,  who was detained in the afternoon in front of the Baku Court of Appeal, was released at about 16:00 from the Metropolitan Police.  Gambar was not released from the building, where at the gate  his colleagues and journalists were waiting for him,  he was taken by car and landed near the "Narimanov" metro station, said a  member of the board of NIDA, Ulvi Hasanli. What were the claims of the police is still unknown.

Another  youth activist  Ismi Shahzade, who was detained  today  in front of the Court of Appeal has also been released after police reviewed  memory of the camera and the mobile telefon.-06D-

2016 August 18 (Thursday) 12:31:53

Today, around 12 a.m., the activist of NIDA Turgut Gambar was detained near the Baku Court of Appeal by a group of people in civilian clothes who identified themselves as employees of Baku Main Police Office. They said that Turgut should go with them, because "there are a number of questions to him." The Board member of NIDA Ulvi Hasanli  told Turan.

According to him, Gambar was in front of the Court of Appeal in connection with the trial of the NIDA activist Elgiz Gahramanov arrested on  August 12 on charges of drug trafficking.

Later, these same persons detained the photographer Ismi Shahzadeh and withdrew the mobile phone from the journalist Islam Shikhali, when he was preparing a report. The police drove activists who gathered in front of the court away.

Turan’s efforts to get comments from the Metropolitan Police failed. Note that Turgut Gambar is the son of the former head of the party Musavat Isa Gambar.   -16 / 03B-