Baku/06.08.23/Turan: The organization of Azerbaijani political emigrants in Europe AND (Azərbaycan Naminə Demokratiya (Democracy in the name of Azerbaijan)) on August 6 held a protest action on the central square of Strasbourg - Kleber demanding freedom for political prisoners in Azerbaijan and an end to repression.
The protesters held up photos of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, including Gubad Ibadoglu, head of the Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity Party, who was arrested last month.
According to the leader of the AND movement Ganimat Zahid, "repressions in Azerbaijan do not stop."
“Recently, there has been a new wave of repressions. Almost daily we receive information about calls to the police, detentions, arrests, about new potential candidates to be imprisoned on trumped-up charges.
And one of the most egregious cases, causing anger among the Azerbaijani public, was the arrest of the world-famous scientist-economist Gubad Ibadoglu, who is also one of the brightest opposition political figures in the country,” Zahid said.
According to Rakhim Hajiyev, editor of the Azadlyg newspaper, who is in political emigration, the arrest of Ibadoglu aroused indignation among the progressive world community.
“Gubad Ibadoglu was arrested for exposing the facts of corruption,” Hajiyev said.
Another participant in the action, Natig Adilov, head of the press service of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, who is in political emigration, called for protests against repressions in Azerbaijan to be held in various European cities.
According to the Union "For Freedom to Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan", there are currently 204 political prisoners in Azerbaijan. -03v06-
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