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This morning in Baku, died Gabibulla Mirkadirov, father of famous Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadirov who was accused of high treason.

According to the agency, yesterday a search was conducted in the house of the deceased. Earlier Gabibulla Mirkadirov published an open letter to the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev about his arrested son.

Yesterday the Azerbaijani news agency Turan reported that staff of the investigation department for Grave Crimes of the Prosecutor General's Office searched the apartment of the parents of the imprisoned journalist of the newspaper Ayna-Zerkalo, Rauf Mirkadirov, without lawyers on May 23, the journalist's lawyer Fuad Agayev told Turan, noting that the search was conducted where Mirkadyrov had not lived for a very long time.

As Turan notes the father of Mirkadirov is already 84 years old. His “two parents suffer from various diseases.”

In the search were involved the investigator of the investigation department and three operatives with two witnesses. Nothing of value to the investigation was found.

As for the investigation of the journalist, according to the lawyer, it has been completed.

Moreover, Azerbaijan portal "Haqqn.az" reported that a search was conducted in the apartment of Rauf Mirkadirov’s mother-in-law. The journalist's lawyer, Fuad Agayev, was surprised at this fact, as Mirkadirov had never lived in this apartment.
Note that Rauf Mirkadirov, columnist of Azerbaijani newspaper "Zerkalo", was arrested on April 18 in Ankara on charges of expiration of documents. On April 19 Mirkadirov was deported to Azerbaijan, where he immediately was arrested and put in custody by the MNS on suspicion of treason. On April 21 the court in Baku sanctioned his arrest for three months. Mirkadirov is accused of the cooperation with special services of Armenia; specifically he is accused of making the transfers of the state secret information, including those about the dislocation of Azerbaijani Armed forces to Armenia during 2008-2009.