Journalists, permanently accredited in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on January 27 at the press conference of the PACE president, Jean-Claude Mignon, staged a protest. According to the special correspondent of Turan, they put on them signs saying "Press".
According to the interview of Kayhan Garaja with Turan correspondent, human rights, democracy, rule of law, freedom of the media are the values of the Council of Europe.
However, according to Karaja , lately the Council of Europe does not pay attention to the freedom of media. Due to the economic crisis, the CE reduced budget for media covering his work.
Karaja also stressed that room for accredited journalists were also presented thank to joint efforts of journalists. In addition , the Council of Europe, because of the crisis, restricted inviting journalists from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to the PACE session.--16D-
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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