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-
Politics
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At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
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EU Reporter sadly announces the death from natural causes this week of its Political Editor Nick Powell, whilst attending the Global Media Forum in Susha, Azerbaijan.
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The health of economist Fazil Gasimov, who is on hunger strike for the 43rd day, has deteriorated sharply. On the night of July 26, he was transferred from the Baku pre-trial detention center-1 to a medical institution of the Penitentiary Service, the economist's brother Nazim Gasimov told Turan.
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On July 26, the trial of public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court. Three witnesses were heard. One of them said that she had once asked Hajiyev for help in obtaining a visa for a tour to the Czech Republic and had no other business with him. At the same time, the witness stressed that she did not personally transfer the money, but made a transfer for the service.
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