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In Azerbaijan the police detained Baku resident Gurban Mamedov who was selling books on internet, Azerbaijani news portal Haqqin.az reports. According to the source in the evening Gurban Mamedov met with one of his clients for handing him the book. At that moment two policemen came up to him, confiscated the parcel with literature and accusing him in illegal street trade took him to the police station. 

After five-hour investigation in the police station Gurban Mamedov was charged with illegal street trade; to all the charges brought against him he answered that selling books and searching for clients on internet is not prohibited in Azerbaijan.

Afterwards, as the article notes, one of the policemen took out a book from the parcel on which legendary revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara was portrayed and stated that Gurban Mamedov was illegally spreading Wahhabist literature.

G. Mamedov eventually managed, although with difficulty, to convince the policemen that Che Guevara was a Latin American revolutionary and had nothing in common with Wahhabism. He was set free, being however fined 80 manats (about 80 Euro), informs the portal.