European practices on defamation and freedom of expression will be discussed at a round-table event in the Azerbaijani capital Baku on 31 May. The conference, organised in the framework of a joint Eu/Council of Europe (CoE) project, in cooperation with the Azerbaijani Press Council, is to provide a platform for open discussions on how to improve national legislation concerning defamation and journalistic practice in the country.
About 50 representatives from state authorities, academia, media professionals, civil society and international organisations will attend the event. The round-table discussion takes place within the framework of the joint EU/CoE project on freedom of expression and media freedom in Azerbaijan implemented by EU/CoE Programmatic Cooperation Framework, says a press release of the EU Neighbourhood Info. -02D-
Politics
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On December 26, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
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On December 26, the British Embassy in Baku lowered its flag in mourning for the victims of the AZAL plane crash in Aktau. "In connection with the Day of Mourning in Azerbaijan, the British Embassy in Baku has lowered the national flag in memory of the victims of the plane crash," reads the post on the embassy's social media account on platform X.
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The Kazakh side has published information about the nationality of 67 people, including 5 crew members of the AZAL plane that crashed on December 25 in Aktau. Among them, 38 people died, and 29 survived.
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On 26 December, lawyer Elchin Sadygov made a closing speech at the trial of activist Rail Abbasov at the Baku Court for Serious Crimes.
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