PFPA's deputy chair Gezyal Bairamly claims receiving threats

According to Gezyal Bairamly, the deputy chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), she got the death threats voiced by unidentified people on the phone and posted on the social networks.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Gezyal Bairamly that yet on October 28, an unidentified man call on to her mobile phone and threatened her.

"In the afternoon of October 28, I got a call. A man's voice said: 'What do you report?' and started to threaten me with murder," noted Gezyal Bairamly.

According to Gezyal Bairamly, apart from a call to her mobile phone, she also got threats through Facebook. "On October 29, a status with threats addressed to me was disseminated on the Facebook profile. There, attackers posted my photos and wrote: 'This woman is a 'kafir' (unbeliever), who has declared herself Allah to her relatives and friends. In the coming days, I will send her dirty head for dinner for her friends to please my brothers (in faith),'," said Gezyal Bairamly.

Today, according to Gezyal Bairamly, she testified to the police in connection with the threats voiced against her. "At the police station, they wrote my testimony in details. They promised to identify a mobile phone owner in the coming days, to take appropriate measures and to inform me," noted the activist.

According to Gezyal Bairamly, "the moral terror against her is supported by the ruling regime." She has recalled that shortly before the threats voiced against her, she had been summoned to the Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (known as GUBOP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and recieved warnings, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

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