On July 31, were arrested on the bank accounts of the American NGO IREX representation in Azerbaijan. The decision was taken by the Nasimi District Court of Baku on the claim of the General Prosecutor Office, Turan was learned from sources in the international organizations. According to the same source, IREX appealed the court's decision. IREX does not make comments yet.
This organization is one of the major donors of Azerbaijani media. For several years IREX implemented dozens of projects to provide material and technical assistance to the media, organized numerous workshops and seminars for journalists. IREX played a big role in Internet access to rural areas of the country, organizing free internet room in dozens of villages in the country.
In May the investigation department of the Serious Crimes Prosecutor General launched a criminal case against a number of local and foreign NGOs. Since then were arrested about 20 accounts of local and foreign NGOs. In some of these NGOs are conducted tax audits.
Law enforcement agencies do not comment on the reasons for the investigation. Local activists see this as pressure from the authorities to eliminate independent civil society institutions. Apparently, the authorities have started a course on overall eviction from the country western NGOs and donors supporting civil society and independent media. —06D-
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Chief of General Staff of the Azerbaijani Army Kerim Veliyev attended the meeting of the NATO Military Committee in Brussels in the format of Chiefs of General Staff of the Alliance member states.
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Extradition of the head of Azel TV website Afgan Sadygov from Georgia to Azerbaijan has been suspended for a week by the European Court of Human Rights. Tamta Mikeladze, the head of the Georgian Centre for Social Justice, which provides legal protection for Sadygov, wrote about it in facebook.
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A candidate in the municipal elections for the 23rd Nasimi-Sabail electoral district, activist Djamila Alisheva, has reported administrative barriers in conducting her campaign. She claims that the district election commission is refusing to provide the necessary forms for her authorized representatives.
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On January 15, the Tbilisi Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of Afghan Sadigov, the founder of the Azel TV website, who had protested his extradition to Azerbaijan. Sadigov’s wife, Sevinj Sadigova, stated that this was the final judicial instance in Georgia making a decision on the case, Turan reported. On the other hand, lawyer Mariam Kvelashvili informed Turan that the defense would continue legal steps to prevent the extradition of Afghan Sadigov. According to his wife, Afghan has been on hunger strike for 117 days, and his health is critical.
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