On June 18 the European Court of Human Rights will announce a decision on the complaint from Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev.
According to the former head of the Media Rights Institute Rashid Hajili, the journalist was illegally arrested in the Sharur region of Nakhchivan and tortured in 2008.
A day later he was released, but after he told the press about the pressure on him, he was again arrested on charges of resisting the police. During his arrest, he was again subjected to torture and humiliation. All his complaints to the courts of Nakhchivan and Baku were ignored. -03D-
Politics
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Official Baku condemned and rejected the allegations made in the statement by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday issued a statement on escalating crackdown on Azerbaijani civil society and media, urging authorities in Baku to release all those unjustly detained, cease its crackdown, and fulfill the commitments, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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A charter flight operated by Enter Air departed from Yerevan to Baku on Wednesday evening, according to Armenian media citing data from Flightradar24. At Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport, Sputnik Armenia reported that this was a charter flight.
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On Wednesday, a group of famous footballers arrived in Baku. Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets, and Jordi Alba visited several public and cultural sites in the capital and took part in a meeting with football fans at the Crystal Hall.
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