Journalist Samira Aliyeva questioned "in the case of Toplum TV"
Independent journalist Samira Aliyeva was summoned to the Baku City Police Headquarters on July 10. She was interrogated for 4 hours "in the case of Toplum TV" as a witness, the journalist herself said. "Due to obligations not to disclose the secrets of the investigation, I cannot disclose the details. There was no mental or physical pressure on me," Aliyeva said.
It should be noted that since the end of last year, dozens of journalists and activists in Azerbaijan have been interrogated in the cases of “Toplum TV” and “Abzas Media,” some of them have been banned from leaving the country.
Fourteen people were arrested in these cases, and a preventive measure was taken against two more persons in the form of transfer to police supervision.
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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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