The National Council of Democratic Forces condemned provocation against the director of Turan news agency, Mehman Aliyev. The statement of the National Council said that the telephone conversations were tapped and the content was placed on the Internet. The source of the call remains unclear, but it was presented as a plan for the change of power in Azerbaijan with the help of the West.
The National Council regarded the incident as a plan to compromise the well-known public figure. Despite the failure of this provocation, blackening attempts have not stopped. This indicates the intention of the authorities to continue the pressure on public figures, journalists and civil society who criticize the authorities. The National Council demanded to stop the campaign of blackening M Aliyev and put an end to the illegal actions against him. -16D-
Politics
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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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