"Musavat" urged to immediately release Afgan Mukhtarly
Baku/31.05.17/Turan: The Musavat Party called on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately release independent journalist Afgan Mukhtarly, rejecting the version of the Azerbaijani authorities that he was allegedly detained while crossing the border illegally. "This absurd, hypocritical and unrealistic statement testifies to the operation of special services in the territory of Georgia," the statement said. At the same time, the party called on the Georgian government to seriously investigate the incident with Afghan Mukhtarly.-03D-
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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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