Baku / 15.06.18 / Turan: The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) reported about the detention of its three activists over the past day.
So, on June 13 evening about 19.00 the chairman of the Ganja branch of the party Bakhtiyar Alizadeh disappeared. The activist left the house at about 7 pm to withdraw money from an ATM, but since then there has been no information about him.
The family members of Bakhtiyar Alizadeh have been searching for him for the second day already. They applied to the Ganja city police department, to the 102 service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, and they went around all the hospitals, but it was not possible to get information about him, the party said.
The party believes Alizadeh was detained. At the same time, the message says the activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Ruslan Nasirli, who was previously arrested in the criminal case "on money laundering," stayed with Alizadeh while traveling to Ganja.
PFPA also reports on administrative detention of the activist of the Sheki district PFPA organization Rauf Abdurahmanli on June 14 for 30 days on charges of not subordinating the police.
In addition, it is reported that another activist, Fizuli Huseynov, was detained in the center of Baku on Nizami Street near noon. Huseynov was detained during a solitary action on the occasion of the birthday of the leader of the Republican Alternative Party Ilgar Mammadov, who is imprisoned. He raised the poster "Freedom to Ilgar Mammadov!" and was immediately detained and taken to the 9th branch of the Sabail District Police Department.
Fuzuli Huseynov had been arrested earlier for participation in protest rallies and single pickets.
PFPA condemned the pressure on its activists.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has not yet commented on the reports of the detentions of the PFPA activists. -03B06
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