On Monday early morning, the editor-in-chief of Abzas Media, Sevinj Vaqifqizi was detained at the airport as she was returning to Baku.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the activists who were together with her, she was not allowed to register at the passport control office and police took her to the Baku City Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the detention police searched her apartment with her and lawyer Elchin Sadigov\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A day ago, Abzas Media\u2019s director Ulvi Hasanli was also detained on the same charges of \u201csmuggling foreign currency\u201d. According to lawyer Sevinj\u2019s lawyer Elchin Sadigov, the court will announce the decision of the pre-trial detention in Khatai District Court later today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday activist Mahammad Kekalov also was detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has already been more than 24 hours his family members and close friends have not been informed about his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kekalov’s lawyer Rovshana Rahimli requested the Ombudsman office in order to get information about him, however she was told the \u201coffice has no information about activists\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happened previously?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On early Monday Azerbaijani independent news website Abzas Media’s director Ulvi Hasanli was detained at Baku airport, while he was travelling abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following his detention police invited Hasanli’s lawyer to the police department, then took him to search the office of Abzas Media where he briefed his colleagues that he was physically mistreated and \u201cpunched in the eye\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Hasanli\u2019s lawyer, Zibeyda Sadigova police \u201cfound\u201d 40 thousand euros cash at the office. But Abzas Media issued a statement accusing authorities of planting the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe alleged funds discovered in our office do not belong to Abzas Media and are a scenario invented by the investigative authorities to stop our activities and bring charges against Ulvi Hasanli,” the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday early morning, the editor-in-chief of Abzas Media, Sevinj Vaqifqizi was detained at the airport as she was returning to Baku. According to the activists who were together with her, she was not allowed to register at the passport control office and police took her to the Baku City Police Department. Following the detention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"hide","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"0","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,492,486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-535-1","category-manset","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n