About 130 small arms were seized in Karabakh during the week
From July 27 to August 2, police officers seized 60 submachine guns, 3 machine guns, 21 pistols, 29 rifles, 125 grenades, a grenade launcher, 63 fuses, 48 shells and other ammunition in the territory of the city of Khankendi, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan reported on Saturday. On the territory of the village of Askeran, Khojaly region, two grenades were found and seized, in Shusha district – machine gun, 7 grenades, Khojavend region - 6 machine guns, 6 machine guns, 3 rifles, 36 grenades and other ammunition.
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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