Baku/13.02.20/Turan: “I am deeply concerned about the situation taking place in #Azerbaijan after the election. Detentions and violence against opposition and independent candidates is outrageous. I urge the authorities to fully respect human rights,” Frank Schwabe, coordinator of the PACE observer mission on February 9, wrote on his micro blog on Twitter.
“I'm really worried about what happened around this early election: ballot-box-stuffing, journalists beaten, and irregularities everywhere - in real the turnout was under 40 % - it is not good,” PACE rapporteur on Azerbaijan Stefan Schennach tweeted in turn. -02D-
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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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