Politically Motivated Kidnappings in Azerbaijan: a Trend in the Making?

Konstantin Adamov News, Re-Post

Afgan Mukhtarli’s last article was called “Politically Motivated Kidnappings in Azerbaijan”.

It was first published back in late January of this year in Azerbaijani, and discusses several recent cases of kidnappings in Azerbaijan, many of which came about as a result of the victim’s activities in human rights, government, journalism and other fields.

Given Mukhtarli’s own recent disappearance, on May 29 in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, Meydan TV offers his most recent article in English below.

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Chairman of the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety Mehman Huseynov was kidnapped by plainclothes policemen on January 9, 2017.

“I was attacked by eight people. My head was covered with a bag, my mouth gagged with a rag. They applied a taser to my legs and shoved me into a car. I couldn’t breathe. My nose was bleeding.”

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Reporters Without Borders, Council of Europe on Mukhtarli’s Arrest

Konstantin Adamov News

Reporters Without Borders and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe have issued a statement in connection with the abduction of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli in Tbilisi.

“The Georgian authorities must immediately explain what happened to Afghan Mukhtarli, and provide security guarantees to other Azerbaijani dissidents based in Georgia,” the organization said.

“It does not matter who abducted Mukhtarli – the Azerbaijani operatives or the Georgian security forces: it is a very serious incident that will not be left without consequences. We demand the immediate release of Afgan Mukhtarli, who was tortured and ill-treated. The use of fabricated accusations against independent journalists is standard practice in Azerbaijan, the ruling regime once again has showed that it can create problems outside the country, and it’s time to answer for all these actions”, the statement says.

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Journalist Tortured in Detention, Teeth Forcibly Removed

Konstantin Adamov News

Journalist Nijat Amiraslanov has been subject to torture at Qazakh District Police Station.

His lawyer Elchin Sadiqov told Meydan TV that all of his teeth have been removed from his mouth.

Ganja Court of Appeal held a scheduled hearing yesterday on annulling Amiraslanov’s 30-day prison sentence. However, Sadiqov claims that Amiraslanov was coerced into lodging an admission of guilt.

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Institute of History of Azerbaijan. We have many genocides!

Konstantin My Thoughs, News

Well, when the news sites write all sorts of nonsense about the genocide of the Türkic peoples, it’s okay when some individuals work out oil-Aliev dollars. But when the Institute of History joins in, it becomes clear that the general madness in the country is beneficial to the top leadership.

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I’m not me and my name is fake?

Konstantin Advertisement, My Thoughs

Accidentally stumbled upon one news on the site miq.az, where they wrote about my post. Who benefits from Armenophobia in Azerbaijan? The news in the Azerbaijani language and I could hardly understand the content as my level of Azerbaijani language at the level of “go to the store.” But through Google translator I nevertheless read the news, although machine translation does not help much.

So the site claims that Konstantin Adamov is not my name, and I chose this name only because in Azerbaijan there was such an actor Konstantin Adamov.

And I want to refute this slander …

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Azerbaijani “Peace platform” is a fake platform

Konstantin Adamov My Thoughs, News, Re-Post

When Sinanian turns out to be Abdullaeva

Since its inception, the “platform for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan” project has been built on lies and falsifications. One pseudo-Armenian from the “platform” was already reported in due time. Let me remind you that the Ukrainian from Odessa, Eugene Rogachko, became Aragom Karapetyan, an Armenian by the Azerbaijani propaganda. Rogachko later, scolded the lies of the Baku side.

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