Foreign Lawyer was denied entry to Baku

A lawyer Ramute Remezaite who came from London to Baku airport on Saturday  was detained and then sent back.

“There was my turn to learn that from now on, I am an evil person in Azerbaijan,” she wrote on her page on Facebook.

Member of the European Association of Lawyers for Human Rights, Remezaite got a visa from the Azerbaijani embassy in London last week.

Together with two other colleagues, she arrived in Baku at the invitation of a foreign embassy, but in border control she was told “there is a problem with her entry to Azerbaijan, despite the presence of the visa.”

“One of the officers told me that the system has a stop sign and I cannot enter the country,” she wrote, adding that she was sent back, without giving any explanation or document.

“All of this means that I am an undesirable person in Azerbaijan and will not be able to come back here in the near future.

It also means that you will not be allowed in this country, if you defend human rights and are not silent, when the regime of the country suppresses rights and freedoms,” wrote Ramute.

She spent the whole night in the room for deported under the constant supervision of three security officers, who never for a moment left her unattended.

Note that Ramute Remezaite is a lawyer, which monitors the implementation of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Azerbaijan. She also served as a lawyer at the European Court for claims of citizens of Azerbaijan. She has also published several articles on the topic of human rights violations in Azerbaijan.

Turan was unable to get comment on the matter from the Border Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. -02B-