From now 4 April will be celebrated as the International Day of Human Rights of Defenders. The decision was taken today at a forum held in Stockholm by 120 human rights defenders working in areas of particular risk, hosted by well-known organization Civil Rights Defenders. The meeting will be attended by the representatives of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights House Foundation, FIDE, Freedom House, Frontline Defenders.
The day April 4 was chosen because on that day a prominent American priest and human rights activist Martin Luther King was killed, Turan was told by a member of the forum in Stockholm called "Days of human rights defenders," the head of the Human Rights Club, Rasul Jafarov.
Every year on April 4th the prize will be awarded to human rights defenders. The first winner was the Serbian human rights activist, Natasha Kandic. The forum involved and the special representative of the UN Human Rights Margaret Sekagya. Solidarity with human rights defenders at the ceremony expressed as the winner of Eurovision 2012 Lorin and another Swedish singer, Ane Brun.
In addition to Jafarov were invited the head of the NGO "Democratic monitor", Fuad Hasanov and coordinator of the Human Rights House Azerbaijan, Shahla Ismail. The awards ceremony also attended by the blogger Emin Milli who will arrive from Berlin and Habib Muntazir.—06B-
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The General Prosecutor's Office conducted an investigation into the illegal mining and unlawful land seizure in the Garadagh, Binagadi, and Khazar districts of Baku, as well as in the Terter region. Facts of illegal extraction of building stone, sand, and gravel were established, carried out by unknown individuals who unlawfully seized land plots.
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The scheduled court session on February 11 did not take place.
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President Ilham Aliyev approved the Azerbaijani-Russian intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in transit cargo transportation along the "North-South" international transport corridor (ITC) on February 11, 2025. The agreement was signed on December 21, 2024, by the heads of the transport ministries of both countries.
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On February 11, the members of the monitoring group of Azerbaijani human rights organizations, Novella Jafaroglu, Saida Godjamanly, and Saadat Babanyarly, were received by the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding their appeals to the country's leadership concerning the case of the arrested journalist Shahnaz Beylargizi. The human rights activists were listened to, and they were informed that they would be informed on the results of the consideration of their appeal. On February 12, the appeal hearing for the journalist is scheduled for 14:00.
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