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Two detained over foreign journalists’ beating in Azerbaijan

Two men who beat an American journalist Amanda Erickson and a British human rights activist Celia Davis have been detained in Baku by Yasamal district police, Azerbaijani Interior Ministry’s press service told Trend Saturday.

On the night from 15 to 16 June, about 00:20 on Vidadi street in Azerbaijani capital’s Yasamal district four unknown persons beat two women – citizen of Great Britain Celia Davies and U.S. national Amanda Erickson

The detained are a resident of Ramana settlement Adil Tagizade (born 1993) and a resident of Baku’s Nasimi district Roman Hasanov (born 1989).

The investigators also know the names of two other assailants; operational activities are held in order to detain them.

Source: Trend.az

Two men who beat an American journalist Amanda Erickson and a British human rights activist Celia Davis have been detained in Baku by Yasamal district police, Azerbaijani Interior Ministry’s press service told Trend Saturday.

On the night from 15 to 16 June, about 00:20 on Vidadi street in Azerbaijani capital’s Yasamal district four unknown persons beat two women – citizen of Great Britain Celia Davies and U.S. national Amanda Erickson

The detained are a resident of Ramana settlement Adil Tagizade (born 1993) and a resident of Baku’s Nasimi district Roman Hasanov (born 1989).

The investigators also know the names of two other assailants; operational activities are held in order to detain them.

Source: Trend.az