Today the UN Office in Geneva will hold hearings on the state of human rights in Azerbaijan, organized by a number of international human rights organizations.
Participants of the event will focus on the analysis of the situation in Azerbaijan after the presidential elections of 2013. It was after the beginning of the third term of Ilham Aliyev that the wave of repression against civil society in Azerbaijan reached its peak, according to the press release of the event.
“We call upon the Human Rights Council to take concrete steps to address the deteriorating situation in Azerbaijan. We call upon Azerbaijan to put an end to the unprecedented repression against civil society and to immediately and unconditionally release and rehabilitate the civil and political rights of all political prisoners.
Speakers:
Dinara Yunus
Institute for Peace and Democracy
Daughter of political prisoners Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus
Serghei Ostaf
Resource Centre for Human Rights, Moldova
Observer of many of the hearings this summer of various human rights defenders imprisoned in Azerbaijan
Emin Huseynov
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety
Moderator: Florian Irminger, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF)”. –16D----
Politics
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Saturday accused Azerbaijan of attempting to destabilize New Caledonia and other French overseas territories. In a statement on social media platform X, Barrot stated, "The 'Baku group' has once again sought to destabilize our national political life in New Caledonia. These futile attempts by Azerbaijan in our overseas territories are unacceptable and must stop immediately."
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Deputy Defense Minister of Azerbaijan and Commander of the Ground Forces, Colonel General Hikmet Mirzoyev, who is on an official visit to Turkey, met with the Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces, General Metin Gürak.
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The coldness in relations between Baku and Moscow, which arose after the crash of a civilian airplane, seems to be growing. Baku increasingly and more often makes it clear to Moscow that it will not allow the death of the plane and its citizens to be hushed up.
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