Relatives reported a deterioration in the condition of the starving Azerbaijani politician.

Imprisoned opposition figure Tofig Yagublu intends to continue his hunger strike, despite the entreaties of his family. His health has worsened as a result of the hunger strike.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofig Yagublu has been placed in solitary confinement. The politician's daughter links the punishment to her brother's participation in a protest in Washington, D.C., outside the hotel where the Azerbaijani president was staying. In protest, Yagublu went on a hunger strike.

Yagublu is on his eighth day of hunger strike in Baku's Pretrial Detention Center No. 1, his daughter Nigar Hazi reported. "Yesterday (March 1) we met with my father. He was on his seventh day of hunger strike. During this time, my father has lost a lot of weight. His eyes have sunken. Apparently, the weight loss will continue very quickly, and his body will not be able to cope. I tried to persuade him to end the hunger strike, begging him on behalf of all members of our family. I believed that he made this decision under the emotional impact of his confinement in solitary confinement. But he decided to continue his hunger strike," Khazi told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to her, Yagublu told her details of the incident after which the politician was placed in solitary confinement.

"We spoke with my father through a glass partition. He said that before he was placed in solitary confinement, one of the pretrial detention center directors and several of his employees came to see him. They behaved rudely and brought "illegal items" with them—a saucepan, a ladle, a shoehorn, a shoebrush, an electric kettle, and some other items. The deputy head of the pretrial detention center yelled at my father in the cell, "What? You're interfering with the search," and then ordered him to be handcuffed and taken to the head of the pretrial detention center. "That's how they created the pretext for putting my father in solitary confinement," Hazi continued.

She believes Yagublu was provoked in revenge for his protest in Washington demanding the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

"My father was relentless and determined to continue his hunger strike. He told me, 'Now they've put me in solitary confinement, tomorrow they'll open a new fabricated criminal case here, and ultimately I'll suffer the same fate as Alexei Navalny,'" Yagublu noted.

Lawyer Nemat Kerimli confirmed the politician's continued hunger strike.

Earlier, on May 10, 2025, at the request of his family, Yagublu agreed to end his 40-day hunger strike, which he had been conducting in protest of his nine-year sentence for fraud. Yagublu had previously also gone on hunger strikes several times, according to a biographical note posted on the "Caucasian Knot."