Arrested fighting group members of “Islamic state”

Five persons have been neutralized in an antiterrorist operation conducted by the Ministry of National Security, the Ministry’s public relations department told haqqi.az.  

As a result of the operation, citizens of Azerbaijan – Heydarov Zaur, Azizov Elbrus, Talibov Vagif, Aghjabeyov Rufan and Ismayilov Elshan – were detained as suspects for the creation of armed formations or groups not provided by the legislation of the Azerbaijan, participation in their creation and activity, their supply with weapons, ammunition, explosives, military equipment and other illegal activities, 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 launched criminal cases on the facts under articles12.1, 279.1 and 283-1.3 of the Criminal Code. Heydarov Zaur, Azizov Elbrus, Talibov Vagif, Aghjabeyov Rufan and Ismayilov Elshan were sentenced to pretrial detention by court decisions. The investigation revealed that in 2013-2015 they participated in illegal armed groups in Syria and Iraq, as well as in the activities of the terrorist organizations Islamic State (ISIS), Jabhat al-Nusra and Jund al-Sham.

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