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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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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