The criminal case against the former Director of Public TV, Ismail Omarov, was not initiated. Media reports on this matter are false and are refuted, the spokesperson of the Prosecutor General Office, Eldar Sultanov, said at the press conference,
Note that some of the media, for several days, have stubbornly written that a lawsuit was filed against Omarov because of the embezzlement of 15 million manat, revealed on ITV by the Audit Chamber.
The head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Office, Kamran Aliyev, at the same press conference, denied media claims that investigation against MP Aydin Abbasov, (son of Abbas Abbasov), is ongoing, and he may be arrested. -16D04-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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