Azerbaijani males arrested by Russian police have been crushed to demise, Baku says

BAKU, – Post-mortems performed in Baku on two Azerbaijani males who died final week after they have been arrested by Russian police present that they have been crushed to demise, a state forensic examiner stated on Tuesday.

The deaths of the lads, brothers named Ziyaddin and Huseyn Safarov, have raised diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Baku and led to the tit-for-tat arrests of Russian state media journalists working in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Russia was summoned to the international ministry in Moscow on Tuesday to obtain an official protest in opposition to Baku’s “unfriendly actions” and the “illegal detention” of the journalists.

The rift between Russia and Azerbaijan has widened after investigators in Yekaterinburg, a Russian industrial metropolis, performed scores of raids final week focusing on ethnic Azerbaijanis whom they suspected of complicity in historic unsolved crimes, together with serial killings.

The Safarov brothers died in the course of the raids, by which six individuals have been arrested. Russian investigators initially stated Ziyaddin had died of coronary heart failure and didn’t give a trigger for demise for Huseyn.

The our bodies of the lads arrived in Baku on Monday night for forensic examination.

Adalat Hasanov, head of forensic examination at Azerbaijan’s well being ministry, stated contemporary post-mortems confirmed the brothers each died of “post-traumatic shock” resulting from extreme beatings.

Russian examiners’ assertion that Ziyaddin, who was born in 1970, died of coronary heart failure, is a “blatant falsehood,” Hasanov informed reporters.

“During the follow-up examination, we discovered multiple fractures on Ziyaddin’s body resulting from beatings. All of his ribs were broken, and a haemorrhage was found on his head, also caused by blunt force trauma,” he stated.

The different brother, Huseyn, born in 1966, additionally died on account of beatings, Hasanov stated. He stated all the deceased inner organs had been eliminated in the course of the earlier post-mortem in Russia, “which may indicate an attempt to conceal the true cause of death.”

Azerbaijan and Russia have traded barbs for the reason that males’s deaths, with Baku accusing Russian police of finishing up extrajudicial killings “on ethnic grounds”, an allegation Moscow has rejected. Russian investigators stated all of the six males arrested held Russian passports.

On Monday, police in Baku arrested two journalists working for Sputnik Azerbaijan, the native affiliate of Russian state outlet Rossiya Segodnya, and stated it will examine the company for unlawful funding.

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