Appointments were approved at the meeting of the organizing committee of the party Republican Alternative (REAL) on March 25.
Upon recommendation of the imprisoned chairman of the organizing committee Ilgar Mammadov, Azer Gasimli was approved the Secretary for Socio-political Issues, Natig Jafarli - Secretary for Administration, Erkin Gadirli - Secretary for Conceptual Issues, and Khalid Bagirov - Secretary for Legal Affairs.
* Ilgar Mammadov was arrested in February 2013 in connection with the popular unrest in the Ismayilli region in January of the same year. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. The European Court of Human Rights declared his arrest illegal, yet the authorities continue to detain him in custody. Amnesty International recognizes Mamedov "prisoner of conscience". -16d06-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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