"And our in Baku was closed for months" — the "watchers" from the diasporas were allowed to go home

The heads of the Ural and Voronezh Azerbaijani diasporas, Shahin Shykhlinsky and Yusif Khalilov, were released home after being detained, Readovka reports.

In Yekaterinburg, they were released after the interrogation of Shakhin Shykhlinsky. In the video, his relatives meet him.

"During the arrest, the Helik, on which the man was traveling, abruptly backed up, as a result of which one of the FSB officers received a head injury. The driver was Mutvaly Shikhlinsky, the son of the head of the diaspora. He told the Yekaterinburg media that his dad was being held in a criminal case as a witness," the newspaper notes.

According to Azerbaijani media, Yusif Khalilov, "co—owner of a large Voronezh Alekseevsky market and "looking" in the region from the diaspora."

As EADaily reported, Shykhlinsogo and Khalilov were detained the night before against the background of how in Mass detentions of Russians took place in Baku. Social media users commenting on the release of Azerbaijanis are outraged by this "shame".

"Why did they call the "heavy ones" for witnesses? Maybe it was necessary to send a summons by mail? And all of us were closed for 4 months ..." — emphasizes one of the commentators.