MNS of Azerbaijan arrested employee of U.S. NDI
Today at about 16.00pm, the employees of Azerbaijani MNS arrested the employee of U.S. “National Institute for Democracy” (NDI) Ruslan Asad. Currently, he is in the investigation department for particularly serious crimes. It is assumed that the young activist was detained on charges of coup, Haqqin.az says referring to Musavat.com.
Later, the portal with reference to certain bloggers reported that Ruslan Asad was released after the state of the evidence.
According to previous publications of the portal, Ruslan Asad was one of the members of the protests broken up in Azerbaijan on March 10 and dispersed by the police. The protest was against the deaths of the soldiers in Azerbaijani army. The portal also repeatedly was noting that NDI is funding the "Facebook revolution" in Azerbaijan.