Стефан Шеннак
Baku / 13.03.18 / Turan: Co-Rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee Stefan Schennack called on the Azerbaijani authorities to ensure freedom of expression on the eve of the presidential elections on April 11. He wrote about this in his Twitter micro blog.
To date, 7 presidential candidates have been registered, including the incumbent head of state Ilham Aliyev.
Three more candidates, Sardar Jalaloglu (leader of the Democratic Party), Ali Aliyev (head of the Citizens and Development Party) and Tural Abbasli (head of the White Party) are under consideration by the CEC.
Leading opposition forces announced a boycott of the elections. -16D-
Politics
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"Amnesty International" has sent a letter to the President of Azerbaijan calling for the immediate release of Gubad Ibadoglu, an economist and political activist.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed condolences to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the death of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian and other officials in a helicopter crash in northern Iran.
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Ebrahim Raisi, the eighth president of Iran, has been martyred after a helicopter carrying him and his entourage crashed in Varzaqan region in East Azarbaijan Province, northwest of the country.
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An Iranian state television correspondent who accompanied Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi during his visit to the Iran-Azerbaijan border reported around midnight details of the helicopter accident with the president.
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