Azerbaijani National Security Ministry conducts antiterrorist operation
Azerbaijani citizens suspected of fighting within the Islamic State and other terrorist groups were arrested APA reports with reference to the ministry public relation department.
As a result of the antiterrorist operations conducted by the Ministry of National Security, citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan Garagozov Aydin Nadir oglu, Ramizzade Hafiz Ruslan oglu, Bakirov Telman Avaz oglu, Tahirov Mubariz Aman oglu, Gasimov Javid Rabil oglu, Valizada Fazail Etibar oglu and Mammadov Tural Fazil oglu were detained as suspects over the creation of armed formations or groups, which are not provided by the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and also participation in their creation and activity, supplying them by weapon, ammunition, explosives, military engineering or military equipment, involvement of Azerbaijani citizens or stateless persons residing in Azerbaijan into the armed conflicts outside the territory of Azerbaijan in order to disseminate religious teachings, under the guise of performing religious rites, or on the grounds of religious hatred, or undergoing military trainings for this purpose, or creation of a sustainable group acting for this purpose and committing other illegal actions.
The ministry’s Main Investigation Department has launched criminal cases under articles 12.1, 279.1 and 283-1.3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The court sentenced Garagozov Aydin, Ramizzade Hafiz, Bakirov Telman Avaz, Tahirov Mubariz, Gasimov Javid, Valizade Fazail and Mammadov Tural to pre-trial detention.
It became clear that Ramizzade Hafiz and Garagozov Aydin have fought within armed groups, which are illegal according to the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Hafiz Ramizzade (2007-2012) and Aydin Garagozov (2011-2013) both fought within a group called “Taifa al-Mansoura” under “Tehrik-i-Taliban”, an illegal armed organization operating in Waziristan, Pakistan.
The other convicts – Bakirov Telman, Tahirov Mubariz, Gasimov Jahid, Valizade Fazail and Mammadov Tural –have fought in the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Iraq for different armed organizations, including the Islamic State, disallowed by the laws of these countries as well as the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2014-2015.
Measures are underway to investigate all other cases over the crimes and find other participants of the unlawful actions.
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