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Recently officers of Azerbaijani MNS detained a Baku resident Aliullu Ahmedaga oglu Jebrailov and his son. The detainees were brought to criminal liability in connection with the preparation of documents in favor of the Russian citizens of Armenian origin who once, in Soviet era, lived in then Soviet Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani news agency "Vesti.az" reports.

It is reported that Azerbaijani citizen Jebrailov Aliulla Ahmedaga oglu, born in 1957, for the reason mentioned above "was in criminal conspiracy with his son" and Russian citizens living in the North Caucasus since 2000.

Azerbaijani MNS claims that Aliulla Jebrailov is Armenian from his mother side. At present he is accused of preparing "false" service record and other documents attesting the active professional activity of the Armenians once living in Soviet Azerbaijan.

Aliulla Jebrailov is a member of an organization called "The Assembly of the Azerbaijani peoples."

"Based on the information gathered by the investigating authorities a criminal case was filed against Jebrailov Aliulla Ahmedaga oglu and his son Jebrailov Huseynaga Aliulla oglu. They were found guilty by the verdict of the Court of Sabunchinski District of Baku based on 310 and 320.1 articles of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. The sentencing decision against them was accepted in accordance with the above mentioned articles," "Vesti.az" wrote.

According to the last pre-conflict population census in the territory of Soviet Azerbaijan there were more than 475,000 Armenians living there in 1979. During the pogroms and ethnic cleansing arranged by the Azerbaijani nationalists in 1988-1990, almost all Armenians of Azerbaijan SSR were driven out from their homes (except the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan failed to expel the Armenian population). Many Armenian refugees didn’t manage to take the documents with them and the state structures of Azerbaijan did not respond to quiries related to citizens of Armenian origin.