At Baku airport a border-guard told me that something wrong was with my passport, and it is invalid. My data did not appeared after the passport number was entered. I said that there is not such a man. Visa in the passport and the fact that I have not left the country, there were stamps of the same frontier, did not have any impression on him. I was kept for two hours in the Border Service, and then for a few hours at the airport police. After that, I was handcuffed and taken to the police of Baku, " said in an interview with Turan a blogger Mehman Huseynov, sharing his impressions on his detention on Monday when departing for an OSCE conference in Tbilisi. After questioning and interrogation lasting for nine hours, the blogger was sent to the prosecutor's office, and was released in half an hour. In 2012, a lawsuit was filed against Huseynov on charges of hooliganism. Since then he can leave the country only with the consent of the investigator.
This time he also appealed to the investigator, who said that there is no problem, and Huseynov could go. After police found out that the passport is valid, an inquiry was sent to the Border to clarify the reason for the detention, because the police did not impose a ban. "The police told me that it could be a decision of the prosecutor's office. However, there investigator said that there was not any ban," said the blogger.
Mehman Huseynov intends to appeal the actions of law enforcement officials. "The investigation has been lasting for three years, and has not completed yet. It is used as an excuse to restrict my departure from the country. Moreover, without any reason I was handcuffed," said the blogger.
Responding the question on such actions of border guards, police and prosecutors, the blogger said that this is a reaction of the authorities to his public activities.
"During the detention and interrogation I was hinted that it is the consequences of my political activities.
Law enforcers agencies openly offered to abandon critical publications, and to be loyal to the government. "Then you will be allowed to leave the country, said one of the investigators," said M.Huseynov. Despite these hints and open pressure blogger did not intend to change the position and abandon political activity. "I was held hostage in my own country, hoping thereby to force me to give up my position. They are badly mistaken, I would not do it," said Mehman Huseynov.-03B-
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