Isa Gambar is again nominated for the post of head of “Musavat”
Isa Gambar has been nominated as a candidate for the post of chairman of the “Musavat” party, according to the party. The decision on Gambar's nomination was announced today at a meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation of the congress. Earlier, Natig Ulubey and Osman Kazimov put forward their candidacies for the post of chairman of the party.
Gambar was already elected head of the party at the congresses in 1992, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2006 and held this position until 2014. Currently, he is a member of the Mejlis of the party.
Gambar was a member of the national Democratic movement in the late 1980s and early 1992. In 1992-93 he served as Speaker of the Parliament. In May-June 1992, he exercised the powers of the President of the country.
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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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