Baku /19.03.19 / Turan: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has begun communicating on the complaints of 25 LGBT people arrested in Azerbaijan in administrative order in September 2017, reads the message posted on the ECHR website.
The applicants complain of a violation of their rights under the Article 3 (prohibition of torture), 5 (right to liberty and security of person), 6 (right to a fair trial), 8 (privacy) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination) guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms.
In September 2017, mass arrests of LGBT people who were subjected to compulsory medical examinations were carried out in Baku. About 60 people were arrested administratively for up to 30 days on charges of hooliganism and not subordinate to the police. They were subsequently released before time. -16D-
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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Well-known Georgian activist Samira Bayramova was prevented from leaving the plane in Yerevan. She was on a WAW airline flight bound for Tbilisi, but due to bad weather, the plane made an emergency landing in Yerevan. In a post on her Twitter account, Bayramova (an ethnic Azerbaijani) wrote that border guards told her, "Your nationality is a problem."
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