A criminal case has been opened against the son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, Mutvala Shikhlinsky. This was announced by the president of the Sverdlovsk Region Bar Association, Igor Putintsev. The Leninsky District Court clarified that the charges were brought under the article on violence against a government official.

On July 1, the head of the organization "Azerbaijan-Ural", businessman Shahin Shikhlinsky, was detained by special forces. The man was in a car that accidentally ran over one of the security officers, while his son was driving. Later, Shikhlinsky Sr. was released after being questioned as a witness in the case of the Safarov brothers.

Recall that on June 27 in Yekaterinburg, employees of the Russian Guard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB detained citizens of Azerbaijan and persons of Azerbaijani origin. They were suspected of involvement in previously committed crimes. Some of them were tortured, two died - 60-year-old Huseyn Safarov and his brother, 55-year-old Ziyaddin Safarov. Baku also noted that other detainees were tortured. Six people were sent to pretrial detention. Subsequently, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case on the fact of torture and premeditated murder with particular cruelty of two citizens of the country and persons of Azerbaijani origin by Russian law enforcement officers.

On June 30, Azerbaijani security forces arrested Igor Kartavykh, editor-in-chief of the Russian state agency Sputnik Azerbaijan, and editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov in Baku. Both were called FSB officers working undercover.