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--
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On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
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From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
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President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
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At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
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