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Baku / 11.10.20 / Turan: The night shelling of Ganja was carried out with the Tochka-U tactical missile, the Assistant to the head of state Hikmet Hajiyev said this at a press conference in Ganja today.
He stressed that the shelling took place after the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement. “This is an act of genocide and a war crime, about which international organizations are informed,” he said.
The country's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev called the incident as an act of international terrorism. “A criminal case has been initiated on the fact and all measures will be taken to identify and prosecute those responsible for this crime,” the Prosecutor General said.
A similar act of terrorism was committed against the city of Mingechevir, where the largest hydroelectric power station in the South Caucasus, the Mingechevir hydroelectric power station, was fired. However, those released from the territory of Armenia were intercepted by the air defense of Azerbaijan.
As a result of a rocket hitting a residential building, 9 people were killed and 34 injured.
There are still people under the rubble. The number of casualties may increase.-02D-
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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