Winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which will last until January 30, has opened today in Strasbourg. The agenda of the session is: the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, the terrorist attacks in Paris, and the protection of freedom of speech in Europe. Discussions on the topic of freedom of speech will begin on January 29 at 13:00 Baku time. The draft resolution expressed particular concern over the freedom of media in Azerbaijan. The document mentions the case arrested journalist Khadija Ismailova in Azerbaijan, who investigated corruption among the country's top leadership. The resolution calls on Baku to immediately release her and the other imprisoned journalists, and to cease their harassment.
In addition, among the killed members of the press are the names of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Huseynov and Rafiq Tagi.
PACE will also consider the question of the credentials of the Russian delegation. At the April session of PACE deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until January, and ruled Russia from all governing bodies of the Assembly in connection with the annexation of the Crimea.
On Sunday, the State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, who arrived in Strasbourg, responded to a request PACE President Anne Brasseur to help to release from custody a Ukrainian military servicewoman Hope Savchenko. Naryshkin said that Savchenko, who is accused of killing in the two Russian journalists in Donbass, will be released only if the court does find her guilty.
Brasseur insisted on the presence of Savchenko, elected to the Ukrainian parliament, at the opening session of the PACE Strasburge.-06D-
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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