{"id":227147,"date":"2025-06-30T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227147\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:21:09","slug":"eu-ambassador-to-azerbaijan-condemns-inhuman-treatment-of-azeris-in-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227147\/","title":{"rendered":"EU ambassador to Azerbaijan condemns inhuman treatment of Azeris in Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Azerbaijan later reportedly canceled all cultural events linked to Russia<\/a> \u201cdue to the demonstrative targeted and extrajudicial killings and acts of violence committed by Russian law enforcement agencies against Azeris,\u201d the country\u2019s Culture Ministry stated.<\/p>\n

The Russian Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk region, whose capital is Yekaterinburg, admitted two suspects had indeed died during their arrest, but claimed the detained Azeris were Russian citizens. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the defendants died as a result of heart failure; the cause of death of the second person is currently being established,\u201d said committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko. She said the group that had been targeted was suspected of organizing a murder in 2001 and of attempted murders in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n

The investigative committee claimed it had arrested only six suspects, but local media reported<\/a> that subsequent beatings resulted in severe injuries to at least three of them.<\/p>\n

On Monday the Azeri Interior Ministry responded with a raid on Sputnik Azerbaijan, the local branch of the Russia Today state media holding, and arrested two officers<\/a> from Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service who had been working for the media channel.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed the detainees were journalists and summoned the Azeri ambassador<\/a> \u201cin connection with the unfriendly actions of Baku.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan later reportedly canceled all cultural events linked to Russia \u201cdue to the demonstrative targeted and extrajudicial killings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7503,5293,2000,299,5187,1699,805,660,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-227147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-azerbaijan","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-foreign-policy","15":"tag-kremlin","16":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773472069932513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}