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At today’s press-conference in Azerbaijan, fifteen-year-old Rasul, twelve-year-old Dilara and two-year-old Rauf, the children of police major Emin Ahmedbekov, who is under arrest, published an appeal in Azerbaijani, Russian and English, which they had sent to foreign embassies, Turan reported.

They say that their father was arrested illegally and slandered because he protected his family’s honor and dignity.

The major’s wife, Nigar Ahmedbekova, said that she was subjected to sexual harassment by the Chief Doctor of the clinic of the Interior Ministry. Major Ahmedbekov beat the doctor for this. The latter submitted a complaint and Ahmedbekov was detained.
 

After an internal investigation Ahmedbekov was dismissed from the post of head of the personnel department in the Chief Police Department of Baku. Until 2006 Ahmedbekov fought for his rights, and then wrote a statement renouncing citizenship.

Ahmedbekov appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. The leadership of the Baku police did not like this, and began to persecute him. Therefore he was accused of resistance to authority (namely a sergeant of the traffic police) and was sentenced to three years of imprisonment.