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Human rights activist Elchin Namazov is arrested for 15 days on charges of not abidance to the police, his brother, Akram Namazov told the Azerbaijani news agency "Turan" today.

As noted in the article, in the office of Elchin Namazov a search is conducted and documents, including judicial records, are seized. He is presented there as a defender.

"At the same time the detainee is kept in the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and no lawyer is allowed to see him. All this gives reason to believe that law enforcement agencies may be preparing criminal charges against him by the end of the period of administrative detention," the publication reads.

It is also noted that in the past Namazov has been a lawyer and there were political activists among his clients.

In 2011, he was expelled from the Bar Association, when defending the rights of Rufat Hajibeyli, young activist from "Musavat" party, who was arrested for taking part in anti-governmental protest on Fountain Square in Baku on 2 April of the same year. After that, Namazov was engaged in human rights activities and was performing in the trials of civil cases as a legal representative, the publication read.