NIDA activist arrested for four months

The activist of the NIDA Movement Elgiz Qahramanov  has been arrested on charges of drug trafficking. Narimanov district court chose against him a preventive measure of arrest for a period of 4 months another 12 in August.

He was charged under  the Article 234.4.3 (illegal drug trafficking on a large scale), which provides for punishment up to 12 years in prison.

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On Friday afternoon the  activist of the NIDA Movement Elgiz Qahramanov was  detained by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (MDCOC) of the Interior Ministry on Friday afternoon.  The reasons for his arrest are still unknown, according to the NIDA Movement.  Now  his colleagues are  looking for a lawyer.

It is noteworthy that today the pro-government website haqqin.az published an article claiming the beginning of a lawsuit against  the prosecutor's office of Azerbaijan supporters of the  Turkish preacher Fatullah Gulen.

At the same time, Elgiz Qahramanov was presented as one of the active  supporters of Gulen, a close “resident” of  Gulen,  the  leader of the PFPA  Ali Kerimli.

However, NIDA Movement called those allegations nonsense. Qahramanov studied in Turkey and came back two years ago, but  he did not sympathize with the Turkish religious circles.

Lately a young  man was  engaged in tutoring, and have not worked in a structure close to  supporters of Gulen.-06D-