Baku /31.10.18 / Turan: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Arlem Dezir, expressed concern about the abduction in Baku and police pressure on journalist Ismail Islamoglu for his critical views. "I am concerned by reports that Ismail Islamoglu, journalist with internet channel @Kanal13_Baku, has been abducted and tortured by the police for his critical views. I ask the Azerbaijani authorities to conduct thorough and transparent investigation into circumstances of the incident," Desir wrote in his microblog on twitter.
On October 29, Islamoglu said in the evening that he had been abducted by persons in civilian clothes three days earlier and was subjected to physical and psychological pressure for critical publications in the General Police Department of Baku.
The City Police denies the fact of the detention of a journalist, claiming that Islamoglu"s relatives have declared his disappearance. When he was "found," the police held a "preventive conversation" with him. - 16D-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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