During operational and investigative measures conducted by the State Security Service (SSS), reasonable grounds emerged to suspect that citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Ilgar Guliyev, born in 2000, known as “Abu Zar al-Muhajir,” Amin Piriyev, born in 2005, known as “Abdurashid,” and Elvin Alizade, born in 2005, known as “Abdurrahman al-Azeri” — were preparing to carry out a terrorist attack against the embassy of a foreign state in Baku on the basis of religious hatred.
This was reported on the website of Azerbaijan’s State Security Service.
“The individuals in question had established criminal links with members of the armed group ‘Wilayat Khorasan’ of the ISIS terrorist organization. Acting as a group and having reached a prior agreement, they acquired items intended to be used as weapons in order to carry out a terrorist attack against the embassy of a foreign state in the Republic of Azerbaijan. They were detained by SSS officers while approaching the location of the embassy. In connection with the incident, Ilgar Guliyev, Amin Piriyev, and Elvin Alizade have been charged under Articles 28, 214.2.1; 28, 214.2.3; and 28, 214.2.6 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan (preparation of terrorism motivated by religious hatred by a group of persons acting in prior conspiracy, using items employed as weapons). By court decision, a preventive measure of pre-trial detention has been imposed on them.
At present, investigative and operational measures in the criminal case are ongoing,” the SSS statement said.
