On July 29, 2021, police officers responded to a curfew violation at a restaurant in the Khachmaz district. Due to the quarantine regime due to the coronavirus pandemic in Azerbaijan, food and beverage establishments can only accept visitors until 12 am; the officers informed ownership of this and required the business to close.
One of the restaurant’s guests turned out to be a deputy of the country’s parliament, Eldaniz Salimov, who, intoxicated, refused to obey the officers’ orders and proceeded to attack one of them – Zaur Mirzoev, an employee of the registration and identity card department of the Khachmaz Regional Police Department.