On October 29, a group of Azerbaijani political émigrés staged a protest in front of the White House in Washington, calling for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, the information was shared on social media.
During the protest, participants also chanted slogans calling for a boycott of the COP29 climate conference in Baku due to the presence of political prisoners in the country. The protesters held up portraits of those imprisoned and demanded their release.
However, the authorities in Azerbaijan reject criticism from local and international organizations regarding the human rights situation in the country. Official Baku denies the practice of politically motivated persecution of its citizens and asserts that there is "equality for all before the law." Meanwhile, local human rights groups report that there are currently 319 political prisoners in the country.
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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