Former Azerbaijani diplomat and government critic Emin Ibrahimov was late on July 22 detained for allegedly stabbing a person, a charge his lawyer and his family say he refutes as entirely fabricated. Ibrahimov subsequently made claims of torture in detention. The lawyer, Aqil Layic, told RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service that his client described to him how an unknown person attacked him near Khalglar Dostlugu metro station in Baku. Immediately after, several men in plainclothes appeared and took him to Nizami district police department. ‘The detention of a diplomat looks like a new tendency. Emin…