A well-known human rights organization Amnesty International has launched a campaign demanding the release of Azerbaijani spouses Arif and Leyla Yunus for treatment. The press release of the organization said that the Azerbaijani authorities in every way interfere with the departure abroad for emergency treatment of spouses Yunus - known human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience.
After the insistent demands of the international community the couple has been finally provisionally released, but criminal sanctions against them has not been lifted. They are still considered convicted on trumped up charges, the report said.
AmnestyInternational urged everyone to support spouses to write to the e-mail of the Azerbaijani President and the Attorney General with a call to remove from the spouses all trumped-up charges and release the couple for treatment abroad, as their treatment in Azerbaijan is not possible.
* The head of "Institute of Peace and Democracy" Leyla Yunus was detained on 30 July, 2014 and charged with serious crimes, including treason. In August 2015 she was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment. In December of the same year, this term was replaced by a suspended sentence. -02D-
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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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