The party "Musavat" condemned the arrest of well-known blogger Mehman Huseynov, urging the authorities to release him immediately and punish police officers who carried out the illegal detention. The party statement said that Mehman Huseynov was abducted by men in civilian clothes on January 9, and only at 12.00 on January 10 it became known that he was taken to the Nasimi District Court. His right were brutally violated and a meeting with a lawyer Elchin Sadigov was not allowed.
"Musavat" believes that Huseynov's arrest is related to his revelations about corrupt officials, the videos which track the hundreds of thousands of people in social networks. One of the leading opposition parties considers the arrest of bloggers on trumped-up charges of disobeying police, as an act of repression against the freedom of expression. -0-
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On 28 December, the Baku Court for Serious Crimes presided over by Azad Mejidov sentenced Teymur Kerimov, founder of Internet TV ‘Kanal 11’, to 8 years of imprisonment. Istek Totiyeva, who was prosecuted together with him in the same case, was sentenced to a suspended sentence with a two-year probation period.
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On 28 December, at the trial of activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, the state prosecutor asked to sentence him to 11 years of imprisonment
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Investigation group of Turkish experts has arrived in Baku to investigate the crash of AZAL plane on 25 December.
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The United States on Friday sanctioned Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, a tycoon widely seen as the country's de facto leader, saying he was undermining democracy for the benefit of Russia, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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