On May 20th at 7:20pm, www.azadxeber.az religious website editor-in-chief Nijat Aliyev was detained in front of Killer menswear shop near Memar Ajami metro station and taken to Yasamal District Police Office #27. He was charged under Article 234.1 of the Criminal Code (illlegal manufacturing, purchase, storage, transportation, transfer or selling of narcotics/psychotropic substances) and sentenced to 2 months of pre-trial detention. Aliyev’s pretrial detention was subsequently extended twice. Nijat Aliyev is currently being held in Kurdakhani investigative prison.