Deputies proposed to deprive Aylisli of citizenship

Today the spring session of the Milli Majlis started. In its beginning Speaker Oktay Asadov thanked the members of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE for work against the Strasser report. "Anti-Azerbaijani forces were unable to achieve the adoption of the report on political prisoners. This is the result of the successful policy of President Ilham Aliyev," he said.

Next, the speaker noted that at the spring session the deputies would discuss and adopt such acts as: Code of Competition, on the status of military personnel of armed and other groups, advertising and more.

MP Igbal Aghazadeh raised questions about the protests in Ismayilli and the shopping center Bina. According to him, the government should realize and understand the true causes of these events, and then bring to justice those responsible. "If people take to the streets, this means there are reasons and it's not a simple hooliganism, as they want to present it," he said.

MP Ilyas Ismailov also approved the youth protest on January 12. "They should have come to the defense of their fellow soldier. It would be bad if they did not. They were not against the government," he said, and suggested that they should pass a law prohibiting the conscription of the only sons in their families.

Then the MPs began a stormy discussion of the book Stone Dreams by Akram Aylisli. The MPs attacked the writer, accusing him of treason. MP Ali Akhmedov suggested depriving Aylisli of the title "People's Writer" and of state awards.

Nizami Jafarov suggested depriving Aylisli of his citizenship. "Let him go to Yerevan, to some church there," he said.

MPs also proposed to prohibit the publication of his works in Azerbaijan.

The attack on Aylisli was attended by Ganira Pashayeva, Zahid Oruj and Musa Gasimov.

Deputy Speaker Bahar Muradova called the activity of Aylisli "betrayal."

Speaker Oktay Asadov summed up all these speeches and urged not to make a hero from Aylisli. Next, the speaker made a profound observation that "in the origin of all who support Aylisli there is something suspicious." -04c-