At today's plenary session of Milli Majlis a bill "The situation of human rights in the United States" was submitted by the non-partisan MP Rovshan Rzayev.
He asked to make a document providing for "sanctions" against US officials, congressmen and organizations for consideration by the relevant committees of Parliament. He explained his initiative as a protest against "double standards."
Parliament Speaker Oktay Asadov instructed to consider the bill in the parliamentary committees on human rights, legal policy and state building issues, international and inter-parliamentary relations.
The bill is the response of Baku on the initiative of the head of the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress Chris Smith that introduced a bill "for the act of democracy in Azerbaijan. This document provides for sanctions against the government of Azerbaijan, if human rights problems in the country are not solved. -16D-
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Afgan Sadygov, head of 'Azel.TV' website, arrested in Georgia with the purpose of extradition to Azerbaijan, has gone on a dry hunger strike since 2 February. This was reported to Turan by his wife Sevinj Sadygova after a telephone conversation with her husband on 2 February.
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Although the health condition of human rights defender Anar Mammadli, who is being held in Baku pre-trial detention centre-1, has further deteriorated, he is not receiving adequate medical care. This was reported to 'Turan' by lawyer Elchin Sadygov, who visited Mammadli in the pre-trial detention centre.
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Owing to the regular closure of airspace over Astrakhan, state airline AZAL suspends all flights on the Baku-Astrakhan-Baku route for an indefinite period for flight safety. This was announced by Azerbaijan's state airline AZAL on 3 February.
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The State Security Service (SSS) and the Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan (IMA) have reported the liquidation of a radical extremist group in Gusar region. It is reported that 8 members of the group were killed while offering armed resistance, and 6 were arrested.
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