Aytan Babulla qizi Ibrahimova – believer Date of arrest: 15 August 2025 Charge: Articles 221.2.1 (Hooliganism committed by group of persons or repeatedly); 221.3 (Hooliganism committed with application of a weapon or subjects, used as the weapon) and 233 (Organization of actions promoting infringement of a social order or active participation in such actions) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic. On 16 August 2025, the Baku City Khazar District Court imposed a preventive measure in the form of deprivation of liberty against Aytan Ibrahimova for the period of 3 months during the preliminary investigation Place of detention: Pre-trial Detention Center № 1 at the Kyurdakhani settlement in Baku City Sabunchu District Conclusion: According to the official version of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs, on 15 August 2025, at noon, the police put an end to the attempt of a religious radical group to hold a mass religious ceremony at a place with heavy traffic and pedestrian flow in the Baku City Khazar District. They arrested six believers: Khoshgadam Quliyeva (born in 1975), Nigyar Bagirova (born in 1987), Aytan Ibrahimova (born in 1984), Shahla Farajova (born in 1981), Sharqiya Sadigova (born in 1994), and Arzu Huseynova (born in 1973). It was stated that they “[had] engaged in criminal activity, chanted slogans and appeals preaching religious hatred and enmity, and waved flags. It is indicated that they had failed to comply with the police officers' lawful orders, causing a conflict with the passers-by ", notably by attacking two local women who were crossing the street to inflict on them various injuries with their fists and feet. However, the journalists from the Meydan TV, a media outlet that supports opposition groups, managed to interview them and discovered that the women had actually been observing a traditional Shia memorial service called Arba'in, when Shias around the world commemorate the 40th day of Imam Hussein's death in 670. Since that time, Shiites around the world have been making pilgrimages to the city of Karbala in Iraq, where Hussein's tomb is located, or commemorating this event in their own countries. Hussain's suffering and death have become a symbol of self-sacrificing struggle for good against evil, for justice and truth against injustice and falsehood. In connection with Arba'in Day, three women, Khoshgadam Quliyeva, Sharqiya Sadigova and Arzu Huseynova, baked sweets, which along with the other believers, Nigar Bagirova, Aytan Ibrahimova and Shahla Farajova, they were handing out as donations. They also chanted slogans against injustice in Azerbaijan, accusing the President of the country, Ilham Aliyev, of being corrupted and condemned the police violence. They also chanted, ‘Freedom to Palestine!’ Right at that moment the police stormed in and arrested them. The police officers rudely ripped the headscarves off the believers’ heads and violently assaulted them. Aytan Ibrahimova said in an interview to Meydan TV: “The police officers rushed at us and quickly pushed us into the their vehicle. Not yet inside the car, the officers began to forcefully close the rear door, smashing it against Shahla Farajova, her two young children, and me. I begged the police to let us get inside, and then close the door. But they kept pressing us with the doors for about 10 minutes, and the poor children couldn't breathe. That's when I got bruises on my arms and back," Ibrahimova explained.” A Meydan TV employee noticed injuries on the woman's body: bruises on her left arm above the elbow and wrist, abrasions on her right elbow, bruises above the knee, bruises on and above the ankle of her left leg, and injuries and bruises on the right side of her back. Aytan Ibrahimova further commented that she found out the reasons for her arrest only at the trial. After all, no legal discussions were held with her at the police station, 200 “At the police station, there were five or six police officers along with me. They mocked and insulted me. They said, ‘Go and live in Iran.’”. The police also searched her home with no lawyer in attendance: "When they were taking me out of the Khazar District Police Station, some police officer attacked Nigar Bagirova and me and ripped our headscarves off. In the presence of 20 other police officers, he yelled at us, “Uncover your heads, what is this?” What right did he have to rip our headscarves off?" The believer has four young children. According to her, when the police broke into the house the children got frightened. Aнtan Ibrahimova further stated that the things taken by the police from her residence, actually did not belong to her and the search was performed without her presence. "They kept me together with my children in one of the rooms. One of the police officers was also in that room. They took a memory card and a microcard from the house. However, I don't know what these cards are or what they contain. They took photos of me with whatever they had taken from the house." She testified that she had seen two strange women who had been testifying against her at the police station: “One of them was elderly, the other was relatively young. They insulted and cursed me, saying that I had allegedly beaten their sister. But that wasn’t true. They forced me to sign a lot of papers without giving me a chance to read a single one. I signed those papers under pressure. Then they took a photo of me together with those two women who had testified against me."