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Representatives of Azerbaijani armed forces arrested Shahlar Bayram oglu Abdullayev, a resident of village Ahkend, Terter district, Azerbaijan, on the line of contact of troops as he attempted to go over to the Armenian side, Moderator.az reports.

Reportedly, Abdullayev had got tired of the indifference of the various authorities to which appealed over the 33 thousand manats he had been unjustly fined. That is why he tried to pass to the Armenian side. However, the local armed forces detained him and handed him over to the district department of the Ministry of National Security of the country.

During interrogation, Abdullayev said he had been driven to take that step because of the unfair and illegal decision Nadir Asgerov, the head of the Terter district court, handed down against him. Fellow villagers and relatives do not know where Shahlar Abdullayev is currently held.

Earlier, there were numerous reports about Azerbaijani civilians passing or attempting to pass the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and surrender themselves to Armenia or the NKR.

On 23 January 2014, dozens of residents of Beylagan region, Azerbaijan, in protest against the demolition of their houses by the chief executive body tried to pass to the territory of Nagorno Karabakh Republic. On 29 January 2014, an Azerbaijani citizen Javid Orujov, resident of Baku born in 1976, appealed to the Armenian border guards on the Armenian-Georgian border, asking for a political asylum for him, his wife and their three young children. On 12 April 2014, Nazim Mammadov, a resident of Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic, was detained by the Azerbaijani military while attempting to cross the border with Armenia with a white flag in his hands. Earlier, in 2010, Nariman Agayev, from Goychay district, threatened to seek for asylum in Armenia because the investigator handed his daughter’s corpse to him only after getting a bribe of 1000 USD.

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