Azerbaijan later reportedly canceled all cultural occasions linked to Russia “because of the demonstrative focused and extrajudicial killings and acts of violence dedicated by Russian regulation enforcement businesses towards Azeris,” the nation’s Tradition Ministry acknowledged.
The Russian Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk area, whose capital is Yekaterinburg, admitted two suspects had certainly died throughout their arrest, however claimed the detained Azeris had been Russian residents.
“One of many defendants died because of coronary heart failure; the reason for demise of the second individual is at the moment being established,” stated committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko. She stated the group that had been focused was suspected of organizing a homicide in 2001 and of tried murders in 2010 and 2011.
The investigative committee claimed it had arrested solely six suspects, however native media reported that subsequent beatings resulted in extreme accidents to no less than three of them.
On Monday the Azeri Inside Ministry responded with a raid on Sputnik Azerbaijan, the native department of the Russia Immediately state media holding, and arrested two officers from Russia’s Federal Safety Service who had been working for the media channel.
The Russian International Ministry claimed the detainees had been journalists and summoned the Azeri ambassador “in reference to the unfriendly actions of Baku.”
