A large group of civil society activists, issued a joint statement condemning the government pressure on the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the EL moveme, in particular, summons of the leaders of "El" Movement based on defamatory statements a former member of the organization Athlai Ibragimov to the General Prosecutor .
The statement authors also point to an illegal civil judgment against a member of NCDF, Gultekin Hajibayli, and the arrest of her property.
"We condemn such actions of the authorities against its opponents, and demand to stop this vicious practice," reads the statement. The document is signed by more than 30 civil society activists, journalists and experts.–06В--
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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