Steinmeier to Meet with Representatives of Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh
The OSCE Chairman, Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Yerevan with the head of Karabakh separatists Bako Sahakyan as a representative of the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh.
In Baku, Steinmeier will meet with representatives of the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh, said Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev.
He will get also familiar with the settlements constructed for IDPs from the occupied territories. -06D-
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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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