Baku / 26.11.19 / Turan: Taira Tairgyzy, the mother of former political prisoner Rufat Safarov, is threatening to commit self-immolation in front of the residential administration. She wrote about this on Facebook in connection with threats to her son.
Such an emotional statement of material appeared on the social network after several days already unknown persons call Safarov’s phone and threaten him with new arrests.
Pressure on former prosecutor investigator Rufat Safarov resumed after his participation in a protest rally in Baku on October 19. For this, he was administratively arrested for 30 days. Immediately after his release, they began to harass him by telephone.
Safarov himself told that he had recently held meetings with a number of opposition leaders, which irritated the authorities. Through his father’s former colleagues, he received warnings of irreplaceable arrest if he did not move away from the opposition and the new punishment and torture would be even more severe. The last such threat was made on telephone to his mother on November 25.
“She fell ill. Saying something like that to a woman testifies to the baseness of the current government,” he said.
Safarov emphasized that he was not intimidated and did not intend to retreat from his position and would remain an active critic of the authorities and would defend his rights in court.
Safarov is the son of the former head of the press service of the Ministry of Defense Eldar Sabiroglu.
In 2015, Safarov was dismissed from the prosecutor's office after harsh criticism of the authorities for illegal actions and corruption. In response, a case was opened against him on charges of receiving a bribe. The court imprisoned him for 9 years. Safarov was recognized as a political prisoner. He was pardoned in March this year. -03B-
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