Baku/05.04.19/Turan: These new reports are alarming as they create a growingly hostile context for LGBTI people in Azerbaijan. ILGA Europe call on the Azeri government to bring these detentions to an immediate halt and ensure the full human rights protection of LGBTI in Azerbaijan.
Some of the detainees were fined and were arrested for 30 days for administrative misdemeanor acts.
Similarly to the raids in September 2017, it seems that law is applied arbitrarily to drive LGBT communities in Azerbaijan underground.
ILGA-Europe are extremely concerned about the detention of least 14 community members in Azerbaijan. The persons, perceived by the police as trans and gays, were arrested on 1 April due to their alleged sex work and forced to test their HIV/STI status. -16d-
Politics
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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