Baku/02.10.23/Turan: The Iranian Supreme Court sentenced Yasin Huseynzadeh to death for an armed attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran in January 2023. This was reported by the Azerbaijani state television channel AzTV.
On January 27, Huseynzade carried out an armed attack on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran. Entering the embassy building with a machine gun, he killed one embassy employee and wounded another. A third Azerbaijani embassy security officer managed to force him out of the building. Baku regarded the incident as a terrorist attack and evacuated the embassy. –06V-
Politics
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The hearing scheduled for 21 January in the trial against the investigative outlet Abzas Media will unfold as repression and injustice proliferate in Azerbaijan. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands that the authorities immediately release the journalists and urges international partners of the regime to condition their cooperation on halting the misuse of the justice system as a tool to silence the press.
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On 21 January the Baku Court of Appeal considered an appeal of Director of the Institute of Political Management Azer Gasymly. He appealed against the refusal to place him under house arrest.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent a congratulatory message to Donald Trump on assuming the office of the US President on 21 January.
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On January 20, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Switzerland on a working visit to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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