The case against the former leader of the Azerbaijani community in Yekaterinburg was sent to the court

Azerbaijani media continue to claim that the investigation is not impartial, detailing that the investigation against the Azerbaijani was conducted by A.S., the senior investigator of particularly important cases of the Russian Investigative Committee. Karapetyan, there are also Armenians among those testifying against him.

The former head of the community Shikhlinsky was arrested in June of this year, following the traces of a murder that happened decades ago, he was charged with ordered murder and violence against a representative of the government. During the arrest, according to the Azerbaijani side, the Russian law enforcement officers used violence against Shikhlinsky and his friends, as a result of which one of the arrested Azerbaijanis died.

That incident aggravated the relations between Baku and Moscow, Azerbaijan in response arrested a group of Russians, including the director of “Sputnik”.