Baku / 27.02.20 / Turan: The head of the youth branch of the Musavat party Elman Guliyev began a hunger strike today. This is a protests against fraud during the February 9 parliamentary elections, Guliyev wrote on his Facebook page.
He ran for deputies in the 12th Garadagh-Binagadi-Yasamal district, expresses a protest "against mass fraud throughout the country."
Today, a group of candidates for deputies again came to the CEC building, demanding the cancellation of voting results in several constituencies where they were rigged.
The police did not allow them to gather and pushed them away from the building.-16D-
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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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