Your trusted source

A food-photogeek with a username “kkristisha_sweetslab” on Instagram reported having a problem to enter Azerbaijan in the Heydar Aliyev International Airport with her 8-year-old kid on Sunday afternoon, May 29.

The Instagram user wrote under a picture of her son: “Here is the look of small man when big guys are deciding on his deportation… Mom is Russian, Dad is Russian and [the kid] has an Armenian surname. An 8-year-old kid!!! Oh world, where are you heading to? We are waiting the decision and the return of passports. I am very angry for the tears of my son!”



Armenian blogger and social media activist Samvel Martirosyan, who spotted the story օn Intsagram, went on Twitter and the ugly story became a trending topic in the region, getting a lot of attention.

#Azerbaijan deporting from #Baku airport 8 year old boy just because of #Armenian last name (RU) #xenophobiahttps://t.co/Dq9Y43HXLt

— Samvel Martirosyan (@Kornelij) May 29, 2016

The spokesperson for Armenian Foreign Ministry, Tigran Balayan, invited the attention of international human rights defenders to the cause, copying it to a vocal critic of Azerbaijani regime Nils Muiznieks, who is the Human Rights Commissioner in the Council of Europe, as well as to OSCE and its current Chairmanship in Office, German Foreign Ministry and the Human Rights Watch.

#Xenophobia in action @CommissionerHR@coe@eu_eeas@osce_odihr@OSCE@GER_OSCE@GermanyDiplo@hrw#humanrightshttps://t.co/ZrtOpiFEEA

— Tigran Balayan (@tbalayan) May 29, 2016

The Instagram user kkristisha_sweetslablater on deleted the posted story about the controversy in Heydar Aliyev International Airport on Baku, for unidentified reasons.

The .@instagram user (kkristisha_sweetslab) who had problem entering #Azerbaijan y-day w/ 8-yo kid, deleted the post pic.twitter.com/INlYpn3kDB

— Hovhanes Nikoghosyan (@hnikogh) May 30, 2016

The only line with a remote mentioning of the ugly story is another picture with cookies and a kid, where the user is wondering what to do for the birthday of her the 8-year-old son, while they are still sitting in the airport, waiting for the deportation (cached copy here).