Baku /22.11.19 / Turan: On November 22, the agenda of the plenary meeting of the Milli Majlis includes the election of the new Ombudsman of the country. Deputies have to make a choice of three candidates.
In particular, President Ilham Aliyev submitted to parliament the candidatures of the deputy chairman of the Baku Court of Appeal, Kamala Abiyeva, head of the human rights and public relations department of the Supreme Court, Kamala Aliyeva, and deputy head of the apparatus of the Constitutional Court Sabina Aliyeva.
The new Ombudsman will replace 82-year-old Elmira Suleymanova, who has been the Commissioner for Human Rights since 2002. –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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