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Three of those arrested together with two Azerbaijani citizens in Tabriz released

07 May 2013 10:01 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting Oyannews agency that they are Isa Garakhanli, student of Tabriz Azad University Amir Hadiyan and a person with surname Farhadi. Farhadi is reportedly head of the pharmacy of Iran’s Red Crescent Society in Tabriz.

It is reported that the pledging their property, three Azerbaijani activists were released on May 6.

On April 30, the three persons were arrested together with scientific worker of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Institute of Literature named after Nizami, researcher and writer Khalida Khalid and her driver Shamkhal Huseynov at the father's house of Okhtay Rasidi by the employees of the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MISIRI). They gathered at the father's house of Okhtay Rasidi on the occasion of his mother’s birthday and Mother's Day in Iran. But MISIRI employees attacked the house, confiscated the books, computer and a number of personal belongings and taken them to an unknown direction. It is still unknown where the two Azerbaijani citizens and Azerbaijani activist Mahammad Rashidi are being detained.