Brother of Azerbaijanis Killed in Yekaterinburg Denies Abuse Reports

Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov were tortured and killed, but their bodies were not abused, their brother said.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, official Baku did not disclose all the details about the injuries on the bodies of the brothers Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, who died after a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg, according to sources who said that there was abuse of the dead. On June 8, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called on the Russian authorities to investigate the deaths and injuries of the Azerbaijanis who suffered on June 27 as a result of a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg. Experts in Baku called blunt force trauma the cause of death of brothers Guseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, while the Russian side called the cause of death a heart attack.

The brother of Gusein and Ziyaddin Safarov, who were killed in Yekaterinburg, Seyfeddin Safarov, has denied reports that their genitals were cut off. According to him, these claims are lies, and the photographs from the examination were partially hidden solely for ethical reasons. According to him, the brothers were subjected to cruel torture and were brutally killed, distorting the facts for the sake of sensation is unacceptable, Minval.Az reports

"I was there from beginning to end together with the Director General of the Forensic Medical Examination Department Adalat Muallim, other employees and the investigation team when my brothers were examined. I am grateful that conditions were created for this. Yes, my brothers were beaten, given fatal, terrible blows and tortured with electric shock. The traces of these cruel blows and cruel torture are clearly visible in the distributed photographs. It's just that when the photographs were published, the groin area was covered... For ethical reasons," Musavat quoted him as saying

Seifeddin Safarov said that his brothers' children sent a written protest to the publication that disseminated information about the abuse, demanding refutation of the information, the publication says.

Baku accuses the Russian authorities of extrajudicial reprisals against Azerbaijanis, and footage of the brutal detention of Russians in Baku looks like a demonstrative response to Moscow's actions, the "Caucasian Knot" report "Crisis in Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia" says.

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