Son of head of Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals arrested in Yekaterinburg

A Yekaterinburg court has arrested Mutvala Shikhlinsky, son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, Shahin Shikhlinsky, until September 14. He was charged under the article "use of 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, with his son behind the wheel. Later, Shikhlinsky Sr. was released after being questioned as a witness in the case of the Safarov brothers. During the court hearing, Shikhlinsky Jr. said that the run-over of the security officer was accidental and he regretted what happened.

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 people 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.

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