Musavat Activist Released, Fined 300 Manat (UPDATED)

Baku / 09/14/19 / Turan: The Musavat party activist Ilgar Mahmud detained by police was released a day after being fined 300 manat. He informed Turan about this.

According to Mahmud, the Binagadi District Court found him guilty under Art. 206 (illegal use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, manufacture, purchase, storage, transportation or shipment not for marketing purposes in quantities necessary for personal consumption) of the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO).

The oppositionist denies the charge and claims that he was detained and fined on a far-fetched pretext. Mahmud said he was stopped when he was driving his car near the "ecological post" near Khirdalan on September 13. Three people in civilian clothes detained him and took him to the 6th branch of the Binagadi district police department. From there, he was taken to the village of Mashtaga to undergo a drug test.

"I told the doctor that if he falsifies the document, we will meet with him and other participants in the falsification of the case at the European Court of Human Rights. But they still falsified the conclusion. The accusation about my drug use is a lie. I have never used drugs. As soon as I get the court"s decision I"ll appeal," Mahmud said. -06D--

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2019 September 14 (Saturday) 12:34:04

No Information on Oppositionist Detained (UPDATED)

Baku / 09/14/19 / Turan: The whereabouts of the missing Musavat party activist Ilgar Mahmud remain unknown. This was reported to Turan by the head of the executive apparatus of Musavat Gulaga Aslanli.

"We didn"t get any calls from the police, we hire a lawyer to continue the search and protect the rights of a member of our party," Aslanli said.

According to the detainee"s son, his father was taken from the car by persons in civilian clothes at an ecological post in the village of Khirdalan. The guy was asked who he was to Ilgar Mahmud and, saying: "Do not be afraid of the police," they took his father.

The party spokesman Mustafa Hajibeyli said that on the evening of September 13 he could not get an answer about the fate of Ilgar Mahmud from the Binagadi police, where the detention took place. "The police replied that they did not have this person," Hajibeyli said. -05B-

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2019 September 13 (Friday) 19:52:15

Musavat Activist Ilgar Mahmud Detained

Baku / 09/13/19 / Turan: A Musavat party activist Ilgar Mahmud was detained on Friday afternoon near his home in the Binagadi region of Baku and taken to an unknown destination.

According to the head of the apparatus of the Musavat party, Gulaga Aslanli, despite the attempts of his relatives to establish the place of Mahmud's detention, by the evening of September 13 the activist's fate remained unknown.

Aslanli emphasized that Mahmud is a member of the Lachin district organization of the Musavat party.

"He is also an activist of the "Return to Lachin" movement. Ilgar always actively spoke at the events of internally displaced persons demanding that the authorities take decisive steps to free the Lachin region from the Armenian occupation," Aslanli said.

It has not yet been possible to get comments on the matter from the law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan. -06D-