The monitoring group of human rights organizations presented to the highest state offices a list of political prisoners, offering clemency for them. Turan was told by the head of the Society for the Protection of Women's Rights Novella Jafaroglu.
However, the human rights activist has no information on whether a meeting of the pardon commission was held on the last days.
"We hope for a decision about a pardon on the occasion of Kurban Bayram.
This is a good opportunity for the government and society to relieve the tension," she said.
The appeal of the arrested youth activists of NIDA to Ilham Aliyev raises hopes for pardon, she believes. -05B-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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