On Monday a meeting of the Board of the "Musavat" discussed the question on establishment of agitation group to hold on September 26 a referendum on amendments and supplements to the Constitution. It was decided to hold an extraordinary Mejlis on August 2, and create an initiative group, reads the press release of the party."Musavat" activists also touched upon the issue of the rise in price for bread and other foods. Board members also noted that the general prosecutor's office ignored the party’s appeal concerning the Panama dossier - a package of documents, exposing corruption and tax evasion in offshore zones by the Azerbaijani government, including the ruling family.-05D-
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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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