The rapporteurs of PACE Monitoring Committee - Tadeusz Iwinski and Pedro Agramunt will visit Azerbaijan in early March. According to sources in the Council of Europe, the speakers will conduct regular monitoring of the implementation of Azerbaijan's commitments to the Council of Europe. During the visit they will meet with government officials, members of parliament, civil society and the media. This will be the first visit of Tadeusz Iwinski to Azerbaijan; he was appointed a spokesperson for Azerbaijan at the recent PACE winter session instead Deborah Joseph Ghrekh. The term of office of the second speaker, Agramunt, will expire in the summer of 2015. -03D-
Politics
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Members of the monitoring group of human rights organizations of Azerbaijan sent an appeal to the country's President Ilham Aliyev, in which they expressed deep concern about the health of the arrested journalist Shahnaz Beylargizi.
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On Friday, 7 February, a memorial event was held in Aktau in memory of the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash on 25 December 2024, 'Tengrinews.kz' reports.
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On 7 February the Baku court of appeal considered an appeal against the administrative arrest of public activist Jalal Javadov.
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On 7 February, the trial of Karabakh separatist leaders continued in Baku court complex. During the session the reading of the indictment was continued.
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