A member of the European Parliament from Germany Viola von Cramon made a statement in connection with the decision of the European Parliament to send an observation mission for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan on October 9.
"We welcome the European Parliament's decision to send a mission to monitor the elections in Azerbaijan. We hope that the mission of the European Parliament will help to ensure that the democratic opposition will be able to compete in the elections and will not be blocked.
We criticize the Government of Azerbaijan for the exclusion of the candidate from the democratic opposition, Rustam Ibrahimbekov from the election process," she said in the statement received by the agency Turan.
Next, the deputy noted that "the development of the human rights situation in Azerbaijan is a concern." Thus, the authorities have banned free and peaceful assembly and association.
The MP also criticized the official Baku for the persecution of opposition political activists. -16D-
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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