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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On 4 February, the Baku Court of Appeal released former Russian judge Yelena Khakhaleva, who was arrested in Azerbaijan at the request of the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
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Lawyer Zibeyda Sadygova met with reporter Natig Javadly, arrested in the 'Meydan TV' case, on 4 February in Baku pre-trial detention centre-1.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday welcomed his first international guest - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House at a critical juncture for the Middle East ceasefire. In a surprise move, the pair unveiled a surprise plan with Trump suggesting that the U.S. could take control of the Gaza Strip, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports from the White House.
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Journalist Shamsad Aga was detained by police during the late hours, his brother Shahid Agayev reported to Voice of America.
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