Baku Appeals Court today rejected the complaint of the deputy chairman of the party "Musavat" ,Yadigar Sadikhov, who appealed the decision of the Garadag Court.
Sadigov was arrested on June 27, 2013-year. Lankaran court sentenced him to six years for hooliganism. In 2014 the Court of Appeal reduced his sentence to four years. In November Sadikhov addressed the Garadag Court of Baku with a request to replace the sentence in connection with the departure of a third term, but the court refused, saying it that Sadykhov was kept in jail N14,he is "not prone to self-criticism and the whole day reads books." Today Baku Appeals Court upheld the decision.
Amnesty International recognized Yadigar Sadikhov as prisoner of conscience. -03B-
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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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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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