The famous Azerbaijani screenwriter and director, co-founder of the Forum of Azerbaijani Intelligentsia (FIA) Rustam Ibragimbekov after 17.00 p.m. left the
Returning the passport, the guard said to the playwright: "We do not recognize you as well as you do not recognize our Supreme Commander (ed. - President of Azerbaijan)." At this Ibragimbekov replied: "I did not say that I did not recognize him. I told you that if he did not recognize me, I did not recognize him." Ibragimbekov also said to the border guard, "If you do not recognize me, then I do not recognize you."
On arrival from
Politics
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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 U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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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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