Washington/31.10.19/Turan: The USA National Press Club at Washington, DC invites on October 31st to a Panel discussions called: “October 19th protest rally - torture and crackdown. A new era in Azerbaijan”.
The topic of discussions is the current state of human rights in Azerbaijan with a focus on the recent developments.
Azerbaijani police violently dispersed two peaceful protests on October 19 and 20 in Baku.
The Oct 19 demonstration, organized by the National Council of Democratic Forces, called for the release of political prisoners and for free and fair elections and protested growing unemployment and economic injustice.
Among those detained was the leader of the opposition Popular Front Party, Ali Karimli, who was tortured at the hands of law enforcement officers, while detained for several hours.
Several other detained opposition activists (some are still in jail) reported that they were severely beaten in police custody.
Panelists will include Jamil Hasanli, leader of the The National Council of Democratic Forces, Daniel Balson, Advocacy Director on Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International, Sevinj Osmangizi, Azeri-American journalist and founder of Women's Media Watch-Azerbaijan. The event will be moderated by Alex Raufoglu, Washington DC -based journalist and Azerbaijan Country Specialist at Amnesty International USA. -02D-
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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