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“Dozens of Karabakh war veterans hold a protest action in front of №5 Clinical hospital in the capital city of Azerbaijan. They express their support to a war disabled man, Zaur Hasanov, who committed an act of self-immolation on the eve, when the head of Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation Deputy Sattar Mehbaliev seized his property, ” Azerbaijani portal “Haqqin.az” reports.

As it is stated in the article, on Saturday in the center of Baku a protest action would be held where people would demand the resignation of the head of Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation Deputy of state parliament Sattar Mehbaliev. The announcement about the rally was placed in Facebook.

The organizers of the action state that Mehbaliev should apologize to Hasanov who is a father of 5 children, disabled war veteran and who attempted to commit a suicide when the Deputy seized his property.

Already 500 people announced that they are going to be at the rally held on Saturday at 15:00 pm.

As it is stated in “Haqqin.az, Sattar Mehbaliev is the father of the son-in law of Ali Hasanov, the head of socio-political department of the Azerbaijani presidential administration.

On its turn, Azerbaijani news agency Turan reports that one of the participants of the protest, adviser to the head of Azerbaijani Popular Front party, Asif Yusifli informed that the veterans were not allowed to visit Hasanov, who still remains in grave condition. The doctors of the hospital as well stated that Hasanov is in critical condition.

Yusifli created a group in Facebook called “Do not burn the veterans!” Through this group he announced about the rally to be held on 28 of December at 15.00 pm in Fountain Square of Baku where they would express their discontent against the violation of Hasanov’s rights.

The participants of the rally intend to make the head of ATUC Deputy Sattar Mehbaliev apologize, eliminate the injustice committed towards the disabled war veteran and restore his property.

The Central Police Department of Baku said that any attempt of unauthorized action would be suppressed.

Note, that on 25th of December in Baku second group disabled Karabakh war veteran Zaur Hasanov has committed an act of self-immolation in protest against the violation of his civil rights by the chairman of Azerbaijani Trade Unions Confederation Sattar Mehbaliev.

"Once by Heydar Aliyev’s request I was given a plot of land in the coastal zone. However, in 2010, Azerbaijani Trade Unions Confederation filed a lawsuit against me and by the decision of the court the land was taken away from me. Despite my numerous complaints to the relevant authorities, I could not achieve the truth. The little unit that was on this land was the only source of my income. I mortgaged my house in the bank to invest in this property. The PM MM and the head of the Trade Union Confederation Sattar Mehbaliev took it from me. That’s why I will burn myself in front of the building of the trade union," he said before committing the act of self-immolation.