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Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijani authorities to release Afgan Sadigov
Baku/05.11.20/Turan: "The Azerbaijani authorities should release the journalist Afgan Sadigov and drop all charges against him,” reads the statement by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists in connection with the conviction of the head of the Azel TV Internet publication Afgan Sadigov to 7 years in prison.
On November 3, Sadigov was sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges of extortion. He denied the charges and claimed he was being prosecuted for his professional activities. In protest, Sadigov went on a hunger strike on November 4. The defense will appeal. –16D-
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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