Frontline organizaton was established in Dublin in 2001 to protect the human rights activists throughout the world.
The organization provides support to the human rights defenders through the 24-hour telephone line, it provides small grants to safeguard security and lobby interests of the human rights defenders and sometimes help them to move to a safer place.
The organization conducts surveys in some countries and works out the manuals for the human rights defenders and also helps them to exchange experience through the network.
Frontline coordinates its activities with the special representative of the UN Secretary General for the human rights activists and it has a consultative status in the UN Economic and Consultative Council.
Representatives of Azerbaijani media expressed hope that the new club will fight against limitation of freedom of speech in the country.
The participants have discussed situation in the flooded regions and were shown the video shot by Kura organizarion and heard speeches of the flood victims
Politics
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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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