New York / 12/14/18 / Turan: More than 250 journalists are kept in prisons around the world. This indicates that an authoritarian approach to criticism is not temporary, according to the report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Over the past year, most of the journalists were arrested in China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and Turkey remains the country where the number of jailed journalists is the biggest. Half of all convicted journalists are in Turkey, China and Egypt.
Two-digit numbers measure the number of arrested journalists in Vietnam and Azerbaijan, respectively, 11 and 10. At the same time, in Uzbekistan, for the first time in 20 years, there is not a single journalist in prison.
Azerbaijani authorities deny persecution of citizens for political reasons, the report said. -16D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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