Participants in the event in Berlin will call on Merkel to raise in Baku the issue of freedom of speech
Баку/14.08.18/Turan: Before Chancellor Merkel's trip to Azerbaijan, Reporters Without Borders and the Institute for Reporters" Freedom and Safety would like to inform you about the rigorous persecution of journalists and activists under President Ilham Aliyev. Azerbaijan is one of the countries with most imprisoned media professionals in the world, eleven journalists and two bloggers are currently in prison for their work. Many of them are denied adequate medical treatment. Several oppositional media outlets have been closed in recent years. Even in exile, regime critics are persecuted, as exemplified by the abduction of Afghan Mukhtarli from Georgia or the threats against exiled journalists in Germany and France.
The participants of the event are going to draw Angela Merkel's attention to these problems and put these questions before official Baku during the visit.-02D-
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On November 15, animal rights activist Kamran Mammadli was detained while staging a protest at the COP29 climate conference. Mammadli was protesting the shooting of street dogs in Azerbaijan. He raised a sign above his head that read: "Azerbaijani authorities are shooting dogs on the streets!" He also shouted: "Resign those who teach youth to be sycophants under the guise of volunteerism!"
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Arrested Abzas Media journalists were pressured in Baku pretrial detention center No. 1.
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On November 15, the Tbilisi City Court heard the merits of the complaint filed by the head of the Azerbaijani website Azel.TV, Afgan Sadygov, against the denial of political asylum in Georgia.
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The United States has been working with Azerbaijan for a long time on energy issues and fossil fuel emissions, particularly focusing on technologies that reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and help transition to clean energy, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm stated at a press conference on November 15 during COP29 in Baku, in response to a question from Turan about how the U.S. can assist Azerbaijan in its transition to renewable and green energy.
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