The French Foreign Ministry expressed concern over the arrest on December 5 an investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on charges of incitement to suicide. The statement of the French Foreign Ministry sent to the Turan agency recalled that during his visit to Baku in May of this year, French President Francois Hollande met with Ismaylova.
France calls on the governments of Azerbaijan to respect the commitments made by the OSCE and the Council of Europe, including in the field of freedom of the press, independence of the judiciary, ensuring the right to defense and the presumption of innocence. The French Foreign Ministry says it will closely monitor the situation around Ismaylova.-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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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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