Baku / 10.03.19 / Turan: On Wednesday, around 4:55 p.m. in the direction of the village of Gushchu Ayrim of the Gazakh region of Azerbaijan, an excavator engaged in laying supply routes underwent shelling by the Armenian Armed Forces. The excavator driver, civilian Safarali Alekper Oglu Abyshov, received a gunshot wound. Despite the provision of primary medical care and the evacuation of the driver, the doctors were unable to save his life. The enemy's firing points were suppressed by return fire, the State Border Service (SBS) reports.
Earlier, the SBS reported on the suppression of the advancement of enemy sabotage groups by the Azerbaijani border guards in the evening of October 1. -06D--
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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 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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