PACE rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee, Pedro Agramunt (Spain) and Joseph Gresh (Malta), will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on June 10-14. They will familiarize with the implementation of PACE resolution on Azerbaijan and the country's commitments to the Council of Europe.
It became known from sources in the Council of Europe, the co-rapporteurs will have meetings with officials, including the heads of law enforcement agencies, and representatives of civil society in Azerbaijan. During the visit, the co-rapporteurs are planning to visit and regions.
On January 23 PACE adopted a resolution on Azerbaijan's fulfillment of its obligations to the Council of Europe on the basis of the report of Agramunt and Gresh. It calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to respect freedom of assembly and expression, to remove obstacles to the registration and the activity of NGOs, to facilitate the registration of international NGOs, to solve the problem of alleged political prisoners and others.—06D--
Politics
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Azerbaijani Presidential Aide Hikmet Hajiyev, who is on a visit to Iran, was received by President Masoud Pezeshkian on February 2.
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Elvin Zeynalov, a religious activist living in the village of Mashtaga, was detained on January 31 around noon by individuals in plain clothes outside a store near his home. According to his relatives, later in the evening, Zeynalov was brought back home by people in black clothing, who conducted a search. They took Zeynalov's pants from the wardrobe, put marijuana in the pocket, then "seized" the drugs, filmed the video, and then took the activist away again.
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Aide to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev is on a visit to Iran, where he met with Adviser to the President of the Islamic Republic Mehdi Sanayi.
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On January 31, the trial of opposition politician Tofig Yagublu continued at the Baku Serious Crimes Court, where the examination of documents resumed. Yagublu pointed out the falsification of the search protocols related to the search at his home. He drew attention to the fact that the protocol stated that on December 14, 2023, at 16:00, the investigator completed the questioning of the "victim" and decided to conduct a search.
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