International human rights organization FreedomHouse announced its traditional annual report on the state of freedom in the world.
Azerbaijan, like all previous years, remained in the list of unfree countries among 48 countries by the FreedomHouse.
Among the CIS countries unfree countries are recognized: Russia , Uzbekistan, Belarus, and Turkmenistan. Georgia and Armenia are considered partly free.
In Azerbaijan was noted in the past year further deterioration in the form of restriction of freedoms and rights of citizens, the suppression and persecution of civil society activists and opponents of the authorities; in particular, violations of property rights of citizens. -16-
Politics
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock held a meeting with representatives of Azerbaijani civil society in the evening of 22 November at the office of Turan news agency.
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock today as part of her official visit to Baku for COP29.
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Journalist Imran Aliyev, held in the 1st Kurdakhany Detention Center near Baku, ended his hunger strike yesterday, which he had begun on November 18. The head of the website Məclis.info, Aliyev was protesting to demand his release, asserting that there was no criminal offense in his actions.
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Germany is trying to prevent the escalation of the military conflict in Europe and is making efforts to do so. Speaking on November 22 at a press conference in Baku, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock responded to a question about whether Berlin would provide "Taurus" missiles to Kyiv after Russia's use of ballistic missiles against Ukraine. "Therefore, this question cannot be answered with a simple 'yes'," she said.
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