The Alliance "Azerbaijan without political prisoners", organized by former political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, congratulated a human rights activist Taleh Hasmammedov on his birthday, who is serving a prison sentence in the prison N17.
A letter sent to Hasmammedov expressed solidarity with him, and a willingness to continue the fight for his release.
Hasmammedov was arrested in November 2011, and was sentenced April 20, 2012. The human rights activist said that the accusation against him was fabricated by the leadership of Ujar police. The reason for this has been the protection of journalist Fuad Huseynov who was also convicted on trumped-up charges of publishing material on the links of the local police with the criminal groups involved in drug trafficking and human trafficking.
The Goychay district court imprisoned him for four years under Articles 221.3 (hooliganism) and 315.1 (providing resistance to the police.) In October this year, Shirvan Court of Appeal chaired by Ismail Akhmedov upheld the verdict of the first instance.-0-
Politics
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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