BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 1. Shahin Shikhlinski, head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Russia’s Yekaterinburg, who was detained earlier, is being questioned as a witness by the Investigative Committee in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, his son Mutvali said, Trend reports.
According to Mutvali, officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service detained both him and his father. He was later released, while Shikhlinski was taken to the Investigative Committee.
He currently remains under witness status.
20:43 (GMT+4) The head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, Shahin Shikhlinski, has been arrested. This information was confirmed to Trend by Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Work with Diaspora.