The Norwegian Foundation Human Rights House strongly condemned the arrest of the human rights activist Leyla Yunus and the persecution of her husband, Arif Yunus.
In a statement, the organization called the arrest part of the persecution of human rights defenders and civil society activists, which has reached "unprecedented wave of repression."
"If the charges against the Yunus couple are "confirmed", then it will be another politically motivated arrest in Azerbaijan," the statement says.
The statement authors remind us that charges of tax evasion and illegal business are similar to the charges made against the head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Training Center, Anar Mammadli and the executive director of the Center, Bashir Suleymanli. -16D04-
Politics
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The United States on Thursday reacted to Russian border guards' withdrawal from Yerevan airport calling it "a welcome step in the right direction," TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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On July 30, the special representatives of Armenia and Turkey on normalisation of relations between the two countries, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Ruben Rubinian and Ambassador Serdar Kılıç held their fifth meeting at the Margara-Alizhan border point of the Armenian-Turkish border.
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Judoist Zelim Kotsoyev has brought Azerbaijan its second gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris. He won the Games in the 100kg weight category, defeating Georgian representative Ilia Sulamanidze in the final.
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