20.01.2022
Baku/20.01.22/Turan: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva visited the Martyrs' Alley where they paid tribute to the victims of January 20, 1990.
On this day 32 years ago the Soviet leadership sent troops to Baku in order to suppress the national liberation movement.
On the night of January 20, during the military operation 134 civilians were killed and more than 700 people wounded. Another 13 people were killed in Neftechala and Jalilabad.
President Ilham Aliyev laid a wreath to the Eternal Flame memorial.-0-
Politics
-
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
-
Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
-
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.
-
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.
Leave a review