On June 20, the Musavatb Party;s head office received the British Foreign Office Directorate representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Alan Parfitt, and an employee of the British Embassy in Baku, Andrew Harvey. They met with the leader of the party, Isa Gambar and leader of the Popular Front Party, Ali Kerimli.
The meeting focused on the socio-political situation in Azerbaijan, human rights, and the problem of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.
At the meeting they spoke about the political platforms of both parties and the leaders themselves, and the prospects of the opposition movement. -03D04
Politics
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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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