Rufat Mayilov – believer Date of arrest: 22 October 2023 Charge: Article 234.4.3 (Illegal manufacturing, purchase, storage, transportation, transfer or selling of narcotics, psychotropic substances committed in large amount) of the Criminal Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
On 22 October 2023, the Ganja City inhabitant Rufat Mayilov was sentenced to 4 months in a pre-trial detention center for the duration of the preliminary investigation.
The period of detention in custody during the investigation has been subsequently extended several times Conclusion: Rufat Mayilov, a long-time believer living in Russia, came to his hometown of Ganja to visit his parents.
On the very next day of his arrival, when he along with his wife and son went to 163 the market, the police officers attacked and brutally beat him in front of his relatives.
According to his wife, Natalia Azmanova, a citizen of the Russian Federation, she initially thought that the attackers were robbers, as they were in civilian clothes and did not introduce themselves.
When she was shouting and calling for help, it turned out that those attackers were the Ganja police officers led by Shahin Musayev, the Ganja Police Deputy Chief.
It was him who had been beating her husband the most severely.
Moreover, when Natalya Azmanova started to yell Shahin Musayev attacked her and her 17-year-old son.
She hardly managed to defend her son, but her husband was dragged to the police station.
