Arrest of son of head of Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg upheld

The chairman of the organization "Azerbaijan-Ural" Shahin Shykhlinski was declared wanted. The complaint against the arrest of his son Mutvala Shykhlinski was rejected.

As "Caucasian Knot wrote, the head of the organization "Azerbaijan-Ural" Shahin Shykhlinski (also referred to in the media as Shikhlinsky and Shykhlinsky, - note of "Caucasian Knot") was detained by security forces in Yekaterinburg on the evening of July 1. According to his son, he was taken away for questioning to the Investigative Committee as a witness. At night, the security forces released the detainee, having questioned him in the Safarov case. On July 16, the court arrested Shahin Shykhlinski's son on charges of violence against a security officer: on the day of Shykhlinski Sr.'s arrest, his son Mutvali Shykhlinski was driving a Gelenvagen and hit one of the special forces soldiers. Mutvali himself denies the charges.

Today, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court rejected the appeal against the detention of the lawyer and son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, Mutvala Shykhlinski. The ruling of the Leninsky District Court, according to which Shykhlinsky will remain in custody until September 14, remains in force, the united press service of the regional courts reported.

"Shykhlinsky and his lawyer appealed the ruling of the court of first instance. Having reviewed the case materials and heard the opinions of the parties, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court left the ruling of the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg unchanged. M. Shykhlinsky will remain in custody until September 14, 2025," the report quoted by TASS says.

The hearing was held behind closed doors under the chairmanship of Judge Olga Koshubina. Mutvala Shykhlinsky participated in the hearing remotely - via video link from the pretrial detention center, lawyer Pavel Korobov told RBK.
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Mutvala Shykhlinsky is accused of using violence against a government official. The criminal case was initiated following an incident near the Baku Plaza shopping center in Yekaterinburg, when security forces detained the head of the local Azerbaijani diaspora, Shahin Shykhlinski, but later released him as a witness in the 2001-2011 murder case. The investigation believes that Mutvali Shykhlinski, who was driving a Mercedes during the operational activities, tried to escape from FSB officers and hit one of them with the door of his car.

At the previous hearing, Shykhlinski insisted that the blow was accidental, since he did not notice the officer standing nearby. He denies the charges in full. At the hearing, lawyer Pavel Korobov asked the court to pay attention to the video recordings of the incident. As Korobov pointed out, the footage shows that the people in camouflage did not have identification marks indicating their affiliation with law enforcement agencies, and the movement of Mutvali Shykhlinski's Mercedes was blocked by a car without any markings. In addition, the lawyer insisted that only obscene language was heard on the video recordings with sound, and none of the operatives identified themselves as law enforcement officers.

Shakhin Shykhlinski has been declared wanted

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has declared the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, Shakhin Shykhlinski, wanted, according to the database of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Kommersant-Ural writes.

"Reason for the search: wanted under the Criminal Code," the database says. However, it is not specified under what criminal article Shahin Shykhlinski is wanted.

Earlier, sources reported about the search for the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Ural, but there was no official confirmation of this information.

Recall that on June 30, Azerbaijani security forces conducted a search in the office of the Russian agency "Sputnik Azerbaijan" and detained two people, calling them agents of the Russian special services, they were arrested. Also on July 1, the court arrested eight Russian citizens, detained on charges of drug trafficking and cybercrime.

Security forces in various Russian regions have claims against ethnic Azerbaijanis, including those with Russian citizenship. At the same time, Russians and tourists living in Azerbaijan complained about visits by security forces and demands to appear at migration services. On July 4, it became known that Russian authorities deprived the head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of Azerbaijanis of the Moscow region Elshan Ibragimov of Russian citizenship. This decision was not a consequence of the events in the Urals and the diplomatic crisis that arose between Baku and Moscow, Ibragimov's lawyer said. On July 9, Ibragimov left Russia.