ADA reports on activities performed over the past week
The Azerbaijani Demining Agency (ADA) has reported on activities over the past week.
From 12 to 18 August 2024, 121 anti-personnel and 31 anti-tank mines, 6954 unexploded ordnance were cleared by various demining organisations in Karabakh. 1,048.7 hectares of territory in Karabakh were cleared of dangerous objects,’ the demining organization reported.
Note that the Azerbaijani Demining Agency is a state body engaged in demining the territories of the country liberated from occupation. Established in 1998.
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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