{"id":29094,"date":"2024-08-22T07:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=29094"},"modified":"2024-08-22T07:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:40:34","slug":"young-political-scientist-bahruz-samedov-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/young-political-scientist-bahruz-samedov-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Young political scientist Bahruz Samedov detained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p03-520x347.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p03-520x347.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/p03.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Young political scientist Bahruz Samedov was detained in Baku in the evening of 21 August. His grandmother Zibeida Osmanova told Turan that around 16:00 he left the house to meet a comrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Half an hour later, five or six people came to our house who introduced themselves as State Security Service officers and said that there was a complaint against Bahruz that he was involved in drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They searched the house and took Bahruz&#8217;s computer, his passport, two diplomas of graduation from foreign universities, a book in English in which there is an article by Bahruz. They did not find any drugs,\u2019 Osmanova said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, a lawyer named Vafa called her and said that Samedov was suspected of \u2018state treason\u2019 and that his correspondence with Armenians had allegedly been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osmanova denied these accusations. &#8220;Bahruz was engaged in scientific research. He is studying in doctoral studies at Karlov University in the Czech Republic. He arrived a month ago on holiday,\u2019 Osmanova said. He was due to fly back today, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samedov is known for publishing critical articles and comments on the Azerbaijani authorities in Western media and analytical publications. He is the author of &#8220;OC Media and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bakuresearchinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bakuresearchinstitute.org\/<\/a>&#8220;. He is known for his pacifist views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young political scientist Bahruz Samedov was detained in Baku in the evening of 21 August. His grandmother Zibeida Osmanova told Turan that around 16:00 he left the house to meet a comrade. \u2018Half an hour later, five or six people came to our house who introduced themselves as State Security Service officers and said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29096,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094\/revisions\/29096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}