Member of the Monitoring Group of the human rights organizations of Azerbaijan, the head of the Society for Protection of women's rights, Novella Jafaroglu, condemned at today’s press conference the detention of the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus.
The members of the monitoring group received the information about the detention of Yunus during a press conference on the human rights situation in the country. Condemning the arrest of spouses Jafaroglu said: “Perhaps we, along with other human rights defenders, will speak out in more detail in the near future.”—05C06--
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On August 1, the largest prisoner exchange in the history of relations between Moscow and Washington took place at Ankara airport: 24 people took part in it at once. The Russian side transfers 16 people to the American side (this group includes US citizens, dual citizens and Russians.) The Americans handed over 8 people to Russia (all of them are citizens of the Russian Federation).
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On September 1, 1,489 people applied to the district election commissions to nominate candidates for deputies in the early elections to the Milli Majlis. Of these, 481 candidates have already been registered, the head of this structure, Mazahir Panahov, said at today's meeting of the CEC. According to him, 958 of the nominated candidates are non-party, 531 have a party affiliation.
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Former diplomat Emin Ibrahimov, who is being held in the Shuvelan pre-trial detention center-3, is on a hunger strike for the 9th day in protest against unjustified arrest. He intends to continue the hunger strike until the termination of his criminal prosecution, Ibrahimov's relatives told Turan. In turn, human rights defender Rufat Safarov said that Ibrahimov was threatened by fellow inmates on the instructions of the administration of the pre-trial detention center.
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Europe and Central Asia: the pernicious political influence of the Kremlin – this is how Reporters Without Borders titled the regional report of the Press Freedom Index for 2024.
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