Adyl Kerimli
Baku/04/14.23/Turan: By order of the head of state, acting Minister of Culture Adil Kerimli was appointed Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan.
Note that he was acting Minister after the dismissal of Anar Kerimov from this post in December 2022. The new Minister was born in 1979, a lawyer by education.
Graduate of the law faculty of the Baku state university, he has a doctorate degree in criminal law. In 2010, he headed the Azerbaijani delegation to the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2012, he was appointed first deputy director of the Heydar Aliyev Center. -0-
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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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