Today, CEC has approved two other presidential candidates, the leader of the United Popular Front of Azerbaijan, Gudrat Hasanguliyev, and the head of the Social Democratic Party, Araz Alizadeh, and the number of approved candidates reached eight.
Earlier, the CEC approved the candidacy of six candidates for presidency, including the current president, the head of the party "Yeni Azerbaijan" Ilham Aliyev, the head of the party "Azadlig" Ahmed Orudj, self-promoter Ilgar Altay, Chairman of "Umid" Iqbal Agazadeh, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, Fuad Aliyev, and the head of the ACDP, Ali Aliyev.
For the official registration they need to gather 40,000 signatures of voters. -03B06-
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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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