Azerbaijani activist's repost in social network causes summons to the GPO

Ilham Gussein, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was summoned to the Azeri General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), where he was issued a verbal warning in connection with his publication on the Facebook. The PFPA treats it as pressure on the activist and on the party as a whole.

Ilham Gussein was summoned to the GPO of Azerbaijan on January 21. "I was told that the reason for the call was my repost on the Facebook of a message from the page of the 'Azadlyg' newspaper about the fights on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the Lachin District in mid-November 2021. I received an official verbal warning not to repost the messages not confirmed by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD). Otherwise, I may be brought to administrative responsibility," the activist told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The PFPA regards the activist's summons to the GPO as pressure on its member. "Ilham Gussein is a prominent figure in our party. The summons to the GPO means pressure on him. He has just been released from administrative arrest imposed on him for participating in a protest action on December 1, 2021, in defence of Salekh Rustamov; and they made him understand that at any moment new cases can be initiated against him," Natig Adilov, the head of the PFPA's press service, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 22, 2022 at 04:25 m MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.