According to the initial report, based on operational information from the Organized Crime Department, they learned that a certain Joshgun Musayev was engaged in drug trafficking. Police then carried out an operation and detained Joshgun Musayev on the morning of June 22, 2023, near the Narimanov metro station in Baku. He was brought to the police station, where a search revealed 6.4 grams of heroin in his pants pocket.
However, during his trial, Joshgun Musayev (born in 1990) stated that his arrest was due to the production of posters that were raised during protests in Soyudlu. He was punished for this by being falsely accused of drug use. He further explained that on June 21, he and his wife had actually gone to the so-called "Dubai Market" in Ganja to buy building materials. Suddenly, someone called him, claiming to be a police officer, and said they should meet:
"I buy and sell phones, and I also make banners and posters. The caller said the police had questions about a phone I recently sold. I told my wife to use the GetContact app to identify the caller by the number." She looked and found that the number was marked "Love DTX" on the phone (translated from Azerbaijani as "Love of the SGB," meaning the State Security Service). I told my wife to go home and if I didn't return by evening, to call 102, meaning the police. As soon as we parted, a man approached me.

They took me to the Ganja branch of the SGB. There, they began interrogating me about the events in the village of Soyudlu. They asked me point-blank, "Did you make those posters?" I told them that yes, I did. I've made many posters about that village.

—about the fallen and heroes of the Karabakh war, as well as about the history of the village. After keeping me there for a while, they then said they would take me to Baku and then let me go home. I wanted to report this to my family, but they wouldn't let me."

According to Joshgun Musayev, his phone was then taken from him and turned off, then placed in an envelope with his keys and sealed. He was then taken to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs' Department for Combating Organized Crime in Baku. There, he was asked when and how he made the posters. Then, early in the morning, around 9:00 AM, three police officers brought him to Narimanov Park:

"They told me there was someone connected to the protests in Soyudlu. Do I know him? I sat down on a bench in the park and saw that I was being filmed. I didn't understand anything.

Afterwards, they brought me back to the department and gave me a package, telling me to admit it was theirs. Of course, I refused."

J. Musayev further said that at the department, he was subjected to threats and psychological pressure, coerced into signing a confession that the drugs were his. He also said that after his arrest he was not allowed to speak with his family members for 40 days.
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