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Azerbaijani tortured to death by militants in Ukraine

11 July 2014 12:36 (UTC +04:00)

Head of Azaerbaijni Diaspora in Luhansk province Rasim Ughurluyev told APA that 31-year-old Azerbaijani citizen Mansurov Azer was taken hostage, tortured and killed by militants in the border city of Snejnoye.

The Head of the Diaspora gave detailed information about the incident: “His brother-in-law also lives in the same city, has a few commercial real estates and runs a car wash station. His brother-in-law instructed Azer to control the car wash station when he left the city to take his family to Azerbaijan because of the incidents happened there. And Azer was living here for a long time with a Russian woman in a civil marriage. After his relatives left the city, the woman offered him to legalize the station to her or her father’s name to protect against attackers. The woman explained that her father is an influential person among the anti-government militants. Azer, saying that the station doesn’t belong to him, refused her offer. A few days after the argument, her father invited Azer to his house and together with the militants took him hostage. They took him to a forest nearby, tortured him and demanded exact list of the real estates and documents. As he refused, they beat him, cut some parts of his body and his genitals and killed him”.

Ughurluyev informed that the deceased’s body was sent to Azerbaijan thanks to the efforts of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine and the businessmen in the country. Mansurov was buried in Tovuz region. “However, after this incident his relatives’ real estates were seized by the militants. Now his relatives cannot come to Ukraine”, he said.

First secretary for consular affairs at Azerbaijani embassy in Ukraine Asim Osmanov told APA that he was also aware of the incident.