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As the Azerbaijani news agency Haqqin.az reports, "Unprecedented vandalism act took place in Nakhichevan against the member of the Coordination Council of the Public Chamber of Azerbaijan, famous political figure Ibrahim Ibrahimli." The news agency notes that Ibrahimli had left for Nakhichevan for the funeral of his nephew, but his participation in the ceremony had troubled the leadership of district and people were sent who tried to provoke Ibrahimli.

Realizing this, he tried to leave the ceremony, but a group of people, who presented themselves as members of the police and Ministry of National Security, surrounded Ibrahimli near the shop, put him into the car and drove away in direction of Nakhichevan.

"They put a bag over his head as soon as they came out of the city, took him to Duzdag which is at the bank of Araz River, and landed. In the same time, he was beaten and insulted by obscene words. Soon the people that had kidnapped him left, leaving Ibrahimli on the bank of the river. He returned to the city on foot," the report reads.

As the Azerbaijani newspaper Mirror reports, on April 11 the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan issued a statement. It said that the allegations about beating Hilal Ibrahim oglu Ibrahimli at the funeral, rendering of physical pressure on him and threats during detention which was committed by people who introduced themselves as enforcement officers, are purely fictitious and baseless.

The article cites the text of the statement of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan. It reads that while checking the statement of I. Ibrahimli it was revealed that on April 6, while he was attending the funeral of his relative in the village Tumbul of Babak region, he conducted discussions "on false public diplomacy" and tried to promote among the villagers the necessity of peaceful, unconditional co-existence with Armenians. Ibrahimli then began to defend Akram Aylisli, writer, who has been criticism for long time by the Azerbaijani as was the ideas of his novel "Stone Dreams". This fact had caused the anger of the audience.

The statement also notes that the ecclesiast, who was holding the funeral ceremony, as an example cited the Prophet: "The one who turns away from his nation to another nation is the most foolish and deluded one among those existing, who have lost their way." However, Ibrahimli, not listening to exhortations, continued his speech. Then, some people demanded him to leave the ceremony. Forced to leave the funeral Ibrahimli came out of the village and was once again involved in a dispute. It ended with a fight between the youth and I. Ibrahimli and his relatives who accompanied him, Interior Ministry of Nakhichevan reports.
The statement reads that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nakhchivan considers accusation of Ibrahimli groundless.