The viral video claiming to show the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan inappropriately touching a woman during a Zoom call is false.
The man in the video is not the current Prime Minister Ali Asadov but Huseynbala Miralimov, a former Member of Parliament and university professor.
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Miralimov was dismissed from his academic position and expelled from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party after the video surfaced in 2021.
The video sparked debate about sexual harassment in Azerbaijan but has been repeatedly debunked as misattributed to the PM.
