The State Border Service reported for December 2023
Baku/08.01.24/Turan: In December 2023, border guards detained 41 people for violating the state border of Azerbaijan: 20 citizens of Azerbaijan, 6 - Pakistan, 7 - Iran, 3 - India, 2 - Algeria, 1 - Tajikistan, 1 - Georgia and 1 - Turkey. As part of the fight against illegal migration, 22 people were detained who tried to cross the state border with forged documents. 834 people were detained for violating the rules of the border regime, and appropriate measures were taken against them.
As a result of anti-criminal measures, 404 wanted persons were detained and handed over to law enforcement agencies, 419 persons were banned from leaving the country, and 16 persons were banned from entering Azerbaijan.
155 kg of narcotic drugs were withdrawn from circulation. Contraband worth 2 million 357 thousand manats was seized. -0-
Politics
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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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