State Border Guard Service reports on its activities in May
In May, 126 border violators were detained in Azerbaijan.
Among them 83 citizens of Azerbaijan, 30 citizens of Pakistan, 5 citizens of Iraq, 3 citizens of Iran, 3 citizens of Afghanistan, 1 citizen of Nepal and 1 citizen of Russia, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) reports.
Also, 16 people were detained as a part of the struggle against illegal migration while trying to cross the state border with false documents.
In addition, 809 people were detained for violating the rules of the border regime.
As a part of measures to combat crime, 316 people declared wanted by the law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan were detained.
Border guards stopped 419 persons banned from leaving Azerbaijan and prevented 23 persons banned from entering the country.
Additionally, border guards seized 178kg 146g of drugs and 225 potent pills from illegal circulation.
Smuggling of goods, including medicines, alcoholic beverages, tobacco products worth 2 million 16, 964 manats was also stopped.
Politics
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Journalist Imran Aliyev, held in the 1st Kurdakhany Detention Center near Baku, ended his hunger strike yesterday, which he had begun on November 18. The head of the website Məclis.info, Aliyev was protesting to demand his release, asserting that there was no criminal offense in his actions.
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Germany is trying to prevent the escalation of the military conflict in Europe and is making efforts to do so. Speaking on November 22 at a press conference in Baku, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock responded to a question about whether Berlin would provide "Taurus" missiles to Kyiv after Russia's use of ballistic missiles against Ukraine. "Therefore, this question cannot be answered with a simple 'yes'," she said.
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On 22 November, a group of international activists held a rally at COP29 in Baku under the slogan ‘Human rights are quietly dying!’
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