Osman Narimanoglu
Osman Narimanoglu, the head of the website demokratik.az, who is serving a prison sentence, declared a hunger strike on November 19 at the Sheki Penitentiary Complex. He is protesting against criminal prosecution and the disregard of his complaints by the Attorney General of Azerbaijan, according to his wife, Arzu Rzayeva.
She stated that after declaring the hunger strike, Narimanoglu was placed in solitary confinement. She expressed concern for her husband's health due to the hunger strike, as he is already suffering from several health issues.
*Osman Narimanoglu was arrested on July 5, 2022, on charges of extortion. After his arrest, he claimed that he had been slandered by officials from the Melioration Department of the Goranboy district and doctors from the Geygel region, whose corruption had been exposed on his website.
On January 25, 2024, the court sentenced him to 6.5 years in prison, and on May 17, the appellate court upheld the verdict. On November 6, the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence. Human rights defenders have recognized Osman Narimanoglu as a political prisoner.
Politics
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Imran Aliyev, the head of the online platform Meclis.info, has declared a hunger strike at the Baku Pretrial Detention Center-1. He announced this in a letter to the public. Aliyev reports that he has been on hunger strike since November 18 in protest against his arrest. "I have been unlawfully detained for 7 months. During this time, judges have been making decisions in my case based on false accusations that are not supported by any evidence."
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The President of Türkiye confirmed that he had banned the plane of the Israeli President from using Türkiye's airspace to fly to Baku on November 17. “We severed trade ties with Israel and did not allow it to use our airspace,” he said while speaking at the C20 summit in Brazil. “As you know, we have completely severed trade ties with Israel. As for the visit of the President of Israel to Azerbaijan for the COP-29 summit, we did not allow him to use our airspace,” Erdogan clarified.
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On November 20, the French Ambassador to Baku, Anne Bouillon, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. The ambassador was informed of a protest against the attacks on Azerbaijan's presidency of COP29 ahead of and during the climate conference session, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The head of the European Parliament delegation at COP29, Lidia Pereira, and the European Commissioner for Energy, Wopke Hoekstra, declined to respond to questions about how they view the criticism from official Baku directed at them.
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