Baku/18.09.19/Turan: One of the leaders of the popular movement for the rights of the Azerbaijani population of Iran (South Azerbaijan) Abbas Lisani accused the Tehran regime of violating the rights of ethnic Azerbaijanis.
According to sources in Iran, at a trial in the city of Ardabil, Abbas Lisani accused the prosecutor and judge of national discrimination.
This happened in the Ardabil Court of Appeal after the prosecutor demanded to increase the 8-year term of Lisani"s arrest imposed on him by the court of first instance.
In his last words, Lisani said he would not give up his position even if he is executed. "You have been suppressing the rights of Azerbaijanis for more than 100 years, and this discrimination caused the discontent of the people. Azerbaijan with or without us will become free anyway," he said.
Abbas Lisani was repeatedly condemned by the Iranian authorities for the struggle for the national and cultural rights of ethnic Azerbaijanis.
25 to 30 million ethnic Azerbaijanis live in Iran.-05B-
Politics
-
Three members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) have been detained over the past two days.
-
The losses in Azerbaijan’s defense and security sector for the first 11 months of 2024 amounted to at least 50 people. Of these, 48 were non-combat losses. Two other military personnel died after being injured during an anti-terrorist operation in Karabakh in September 2023, remaining in a coma for an extended period, reports the Caspian Defense Studies Institute.
-
Several dozen employees of Georgia’s Ministry of Defense have declared their commitment to the course of EU and NATO membership, calling it the only path to the country's security. They issued a joint statement against the backdrop of the government’s decision to freeze negotiations on EU accession.
-
A travel ban has been imposed on Samira Gassimly, the wife of political scientist Azer Gassimly. She herself informed Turan about this. On November 30, she was not allowed to depart from Baku airport for an overseas business trip.
Leave a review