Human rights activist from Salyan: they want to arrest me for criticizing

Baku/07.04.14/Turan : In Salyan  an activist of the local NGO "Promoting Democracy" Tofig Gasimov  was arrested  on charges of hooliganism for 10 days, Turan was told by the head of the NGO, Emil Mammadov.He believes that Gasimov is arrested on  concocted  charges . "He was arrested for sending an appeal to the  president in December last year,  and in February this year to the Presidential Administration with request to investigate the facts of corruption in the  region.

Since then, the region’s chief executive sees me as the enemy, and at every event  he criticizes me. People close to him had warned me that he will  try to obtain my arrest," said Mammadov.

Human rights activist believes that Gasimov is made give testimonies, so that to arrest Mamedov. In particular, Gasimov is forced to testify that  Mamedov  ordered him to extort money  from businesses and institutions.

 The arrested Gasimov  has not been provided by a lawyer, and Mamedov  called human rights defenders in Baku  to help to  ensure  lawyer for Gasimov. Commenting Turan these charges , assistant of the  chief executive of Salyan region,  Zaman Amirov, called these charges  unfounded. Nobody threatened Mamedov, and  even if the  chief executive of the region criticized  him he was right, he said. As for the arrest  of Gasimov, the assistant did not comment  the issue because of lack of information.—03C06-

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