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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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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