On 9 February the "Musavat" party issued a statement reading that the police officers and the Committee for State Property "captured" an office that housed the local offices of the party "Musavat" and the Popular Front. "The repression of the authorities against the opposition, which lasted for years, in recent days in Sheki gained intense: the head of Sheki branch of PFPA Islam Hasanov and the young activist Samir Hasanov were arrested.
Today, the total pressure zone is expanded, and the office of the two parties were captured," reads the statement.
"Musavat" considers the seizure of the premises, forced evictions and destruction of records, as a manifestation of vandalism, and calls for an end to this," noted in a statement. -02D-
Politics
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Chechnya will observe a day of mourning on December 28 following the crash of an Embraer 190 aircraft traveling from Baku to Grozny. The decree, signed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was reported by the local news agency "Chechnya Today."
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Volodımır Zelensky expressed his condolences due to crash of AZAL plane.
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The White House said Thursday that President Joe Biden 'has been and will continue to be' apprised of the situation around Azerbaijani passenger plane crash in Kazakhstan, and is "kept up to date on what's going on," TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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Criminal charges have been filed against officials from the Ministry of Health for issuing fake certificates for plastic surgery, a joint statement from the General Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Health on December 27. Specifically, the officials were uncovered for accepting bribes and creating conditions for illegal medical activities.
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