Mahmudali Chehreganly, leader of the Movement of National Awakening of South Azerbaijan (MNESA) urged Baku to protect the rights of Iranian Azerbaijanis. In an interview with "Voice of America", he said that he plans to visit Azerbaijan in the coming weeks. He opined that President Ilham Aliyev should pursue a more active policy to protect the rights of Azerbaijanis of Iran.
Chehreganly referred to recent statements by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that said after World War II, the Government of the People's Republican Party of Turkey after returned expatriate Azerbaijani’s to the Soviet Union. The Azerbaijanis were immediately shot. According to Chehreganly, Erdogan's government holds a similar policy for Iranian Azerbaijanis.
Chehreganly claims that Erdogan's government has nearly extradited him to Tehran. Chehreganly praised U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabaher for raising the issue of granting the right to self-determination to Iranian Azerbaijanis. Chehreganly claimed that the Iranian government did not provide assistance to Azerbaijanis in Ahar and Varzigan after the earthquake in August and did not allow other Azerbaijanis to help them. -03D06-
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Alisahib Kerimov, an activist of the Khazar district branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was detained on January 10 at the Nizami metro station. By the decision of the Yasamal District Court, he was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest for "disobeying the police."
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Independent journalist Khanum Mustafayeva was unable to leave Azerbaijan on January 11. At the Baku airport, she was told that the ban was imposed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan. However, the reasons for restricting the journalist's rights were not explained to her.
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The identity card of renowned economist and political activist Gubad Ibadoglu has been invalidated, further restricting his rights after his release under house arrest. Ibadoglu himself informed Turan about this.
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The regular session of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes on 10 January on the case of Tofig Yagublu, member of the National Council of Democratic Forces and Musavat Party, was held in a tense atmosphere.
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