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155 kg of narcotic drugs were withdrawn from circulation.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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Journalist Imran Aliyev, held in the 1st Kurdakhany Detention Center near Baku, ended his hunger strike yesterday, which he had begun on November 18. The head of the website Məclis.info, Aliyev was protesting to demand his release, asserting that there was no criminal offense in his actions.
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Germany is trying to prevent the escalation of the military conflict in Europe and is making efforts to do so. Speaking on November 22 at a press conference in Baku, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock responded to a question about whether Berlin would provide "Taurus" missiles to Kyiv after Russia's use of ballistic missiles against Ukraine. "Therefore, this question cannot be answered with a simple 'yes'," she said.
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On 22 November, a group of international activists held a rally at COP29 in Baku under the slogan ‘Human rights are quietly dying!’
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The Advisor for Foreign Policy to the President of Azerbaijan posted on his account on platform X, where he responded to Senator Ed Markey's remarks at COP29 and after his return from Baku. According to Hajiyev, the senator presented the results of his trip "in a way that aligns with what the Armenian lobby wants to hear."
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