On November 4, on Bashir Safaroglu Street in Baku, a person named Yasin Ibadov was stabbed and killed. It is reported that he was homosexual.
According to information obtained by Meydan TV, the incident was committed by the uncle of the murdered person.
The source stated that Yasin Ibadov was known by the name Ruzgar. He received numerous knife wounds and died at the scene. Witnesses noted that people around did not intervene in the incident and that the police arrived at the scene only after the person who committed the murder himself called. It is also alleged that doctors did not provide the injured person with the necessary medical assistance.
According to the information, the murdered person was from the Shamakhi district. He had lived in Turkey for a long time, but returned to Azerbaijan because his residence period had expired. According to allegations, Yasin Ibadov had been threatened by his cousin since the time he was in Turkey. The uncle who committed the murder had previously also been imprisoned.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has not yet released an official statement regarding the incident.
Azerbaijan has already been in last place for 9 years among 49 countries in the ILGA-Europe organization’s Rainbow Index on the protection of LGBTQI+ rights.
The Azerbaijani authorities, however, state that no individual’s rights are violated in the country.
Nevertheless, according to ILGA-Europe’s latest index, among 49 European countries, Azerbaijan shares the lowest indicators in the field of LGBTQI+ rights with Russia this year — both countries have a score of 2 percent.
