The Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), Leyla Yunus has been transferred from Kurdakhani Detention Center No 1 to the Detention Unit of the Ministry of National Security (MNS).
The IPD expert, Azad Isazadeh told Turan that on the morning of October 20 he came to the detention facility in Kurdakhani to pass a parcel for Leyla, but the administration announced that she had been translated to MNS.
Yunusov stayed in the Kurdakhani Detention Center for 2.5 months and regularly complained about psychological and physical torture.
Her husband Arif Yunusov was also detained and put In the MNS Detention Facility in early August. Both are accused of treason. The international community considers them political prisoners. --0--
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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