By the decree of the President of Azerbaijan, 210 people were convicted. They are released from the remaining term of imprisonment, wrote on his Facebook page a member of the Presidential Commission on Pardons, MP Azay Guliyev. At 18:00 the list of those pardoned was published, and there are no names of political prisoners. This is an unprecedented case of ignoring the requirements of the international community by the authorities. According to a number of pro-government sources, this is the answer Ilham Aliyev to the bill the US Helsinki Commission on the introduction of sanctions against Azerbaijani officials. The authorities had previously announced plans to release a significant part of the political prisoners, but after bill of Smith, the position of the authorities tightened.
This means that the official Baku is going to go to the further aggravation of relations with Washington and the West in general, that does not bode well for democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan. At the same time, it means that the pressure from the West will strengthened and the authorities of Azerbaijan are also expecting troubles.-02D-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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