Baku/25.09.19/Turan: The OSCE Special Representative for Press Freedom Arlem Dezir expressed concern about the pressure of the administration of the jail No. 6 on the lawyer Neymat Karimli, who defends the interests of a political prisoner convicted in Azerbaijan, journalist Afghanistan Mukhtarli.
"I urge the Azerbaijani authorities to guarantee Afghan Mukhtarly"s access to legal assistance without any discrimination," Dezir wrote on his Twitter microblog.
On September 22, Neymat Karimli was subjected to a humiliating search at the entrance and exit from the jail. He was detained for about 50 minutes while his notes were illegally studied, despite protests by the lawyer. After that, the Prison Service appealed to the Bar Association with a call to punish Karimli for spreading misinformation. -16D-
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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Well-known Georgian activist Samira Bayramova was prevented from leaving the plane in Yerevan. She was on a WAW airline flight bound for Tbilisi, but due to bad weather, the plane made an emergency landing in Yerevan. In a post on her Twitter account, Bayramova (an ethnic Azerbaijani) wrote that border guards told her, "Your nationality is a problem."
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