Member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party, Vugar Aslanov, was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. According to the Youth Committee of the Popular Front, a young man was detained on Sunday at Fountain Square in the center of Baku, for expressing a silent protest, by covering his mouth with his hand.
According to the same source, the young man was arrested on charges of insubordination to the police.
PPFA has regarded the arrest of a young man, as a violation of freedom of assembly and expression. The protesters demanded the release of arrested youth activists.
Ehsan Zahidov, Deputy head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Turan that Aslanov was arrested for "not obeying the law requirements, performing their professional duties." On the basis of the collected material, a protocol was drawn up, and the case was referred to the court, which determined the punishment.—16B06--
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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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