The office of Platform III of the Republic was searched on March 6.
Upon completion of the search, the speaker of the Platform, Akif Gurbanov, and members of this structure, Araz Aliyev and Ruslan Izzetli, were taken out of the office, and they were taken away by the police.
A search is now being conducted at Gurbanov’s apartment.
At the same time, as Gurbanov’s lawyer Shahla Gumbatova told Turan, the security forces do not allow her to go to the search site. At the same time, masked persons rudely pushed the lawyer away from the door of Gurbanov’s apartment.
In addition, a search is also being carried out at the apartment of Toplum Tv employee Farid Ismailov.
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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