{"id":194830,"date":"2019-04-07T20:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/meykhana-performer-vugar-sada-sentenced-to-administrative-arrest-over-drug-charges\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:53:20","slug":"meykhana-performer-vugar-sada-sentenced-to-administrative-arrest-over-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/meykhana-performer-vugar-sada-sentenced-to-administrative-arrest-over-drug-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Meykhana\u2019 performer Vugar Sada arrested over lyrics allegedly promoting drug use"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Vugar Abdullayev, a performer of traditional rap-like
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\n Meykhana
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\n , has been arrested and sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention by the Sumqayit City Court for alleged drug possession and trafficking.\n<\/p>\n

\n Abdullayev, also known as Vugar Sada, was detained for \u201cpublicly promoting drug use\u201d with his music, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated on Monday, 1 April.\n<\/p>\n

\n The arrest came after Abdullayev\u2019s song \u201cKazbek\u201d, which addresses marijuana, became widely popular on social media, particularly among young and female users, who recorded and published videos of themselves dancing to the music. The song is also frequently played at weddings throughout the country.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to the Ministry of Internal Affaris, Abdullayev said that he had recorded the song a few years ago already, and that he regrets doing so. He had marijuana on him when he was searched by police.\n<\/p>\n

\n A few days before his arrest, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Fazil Mustafa labelled the song as \u201cpromoting harmful habits\u201d on his Facebook page, calling Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov and Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov for action.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis video, which contains dangerous content both in terms of triviality in music and appearance of women as drug promoters, has led to serious public debates," Mustafayev wrote, adding that the video was \u201ca direct call for crime\u201d and that measures against those who \u201cexplicitly dismiss laws and moral values in society\u201d have to be taken.\n<\/p>\n

\n Abdullayev\u2019s detention has caused various reactions.\n<\/p>\n

\n Araz Slangue, an Azerbaijani rapper based in the Netherlands, has called Abullayev\u2019s video \u201cthe most positive and optimistic" he has ever seen in Azerbaijan.\n<\/p>\n

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\n N!DA
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\n youth activist Ilkin Rustamzadeh, who was recently released from prison following the Novruz pardon decree, said that arresting people for their music was \u201cunacceptable and disgraceful.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Republican Alternative Party (REAL) chair Ilgar Mammadov drew parallels to the Mexican music genre \u2018narcocorrido\u2019, which often speaks about the lives of the poor, similar to Abdullayev\u2019s song.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAzerbaijani authorities will not be able to achieve anything with the arrest of a single musician\u201d, Mammadov said, \u201cThis music and text come from many social-political and economic troubles. It is necessary to eliminate them, so that Azerbaijan does not become Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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