Bayram Mammadov Called to Police

Baku / 07.24.19 / Turan: The activist of the NIDA movement, Bayram Mammadov, was summoned to the Baku Police Headquarters today.

As Mammadov told Turan, today a call was made on his father"s mobile phone and a person who introduced himself as an employee of the investigation department, said that his son had to come to the metropolitan police.

"The caller said that while serving an administrative arrest in March-April of this year, I complained to the prosecutor"s office about torture in the Binagadi prison. The Prosecutor General sent a complaint to the Baku Police Headquarters and therefore I was summoned to this department," Mammadov said.

Mammadov's father said that the complaint was filed by lawyer Elchin Sadigov, and therefore it is advisable to invite him to the office. However, the caller, saying "why the lawyer?" strongly emphasized the need for Mammadov himself to come.

The activist said he would not go to the police.

"In March of this year, I was also summoned to the police by arrogant excuse and arrested there. I do not want a repetition of this," said the activist.

* Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov were arrested in 2016 after they wrote political slogans on the Heydar Aliyev monument. Both were sentenced to 10 years in prison on large-scale drug trafficking charges. The human rights organization Amnesty International recognized them as "prisoners of conscience." Both were pardoned on March 16 of this year. After being released, B. Mammadov spoke in the media and social networks with sharp criticism of the authorities of Azerbaijan and two weeks later was administratively arrested for 30 days. - 21С-