The release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan was welcomed on Thursday by the European Parliament’s vice-president for Human Rights and Democracy Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (ALDE,DE).
"We are relieved to hear that Rasul Jafarov and fourteen other political prisoners have been pardoned by President Aliyev. Of course, they shouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place. However, we see this step as a sign that the Azeri government is interested in restoring relations with the EU by respecting such fundamental rights as freedom of speech and assembly”, he stated.
He added that “other prisoners like Khadija Ismayilova, Intigam Aliyev and Ilgar Mammadov need to be released as well", - reads a statement sent to Turan. -02D-
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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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