Nakhchivan chaos continues

The fate of those arrested in December in Nakhchivan – the entrepreneurs Nadir Mammadov and Muhammad Gurbanov remains unclear, which was reported by their relatives at a press conference at the Media Centre in Baku.

The wife of Muhammad Gurbanov, Farida Gurbanova said that for more than a month she was not given the possibility of a meeting with her husband, and the authorities refused to accept food brought for him or return the confiscated goods at 9,000 manats.

 “We became aware that he was tortured: kept in the cold for hours, poured cold water one,” she said. 

The wife of the second businessman Elmira Mammadova said that she received threatening phone calls from a private number, and her family was not returned the car confiscated by the Sadarak customs office from her husband.

"Every day I receive anonymous threatening phone calls, and they follow us everywhere - around our house there is constantly spinning suspicious person.

We were forced to flee from Nakhchivan to live with relatives in Baku," she said.

The women reported that their numerous complaints to official bodies remained unanswered. If this attitude continues, the victims are going to seek asylum abroad.

* Recall that on December 8, the two entrepreneurs brought goods from Turkey to Nakhchivan. At the customs they were asked a bribe - 40 gapiks (cents) per kilogram. The businessmen refused to pay and invited journalists. However, over 10 customs officers attacked them and beat the journalists and confiscated the photo and video cameras, and the businessmen were arrested and charged with assault on the authorities. Later criminal charges were brought against them. -26D-