Baku/30.08.13/Turan : Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas Melia during the upcoming early September visit to Azerbaijan is going to meet with the imprisoned leader of the REAL Movement Ilgar Mamedov.
He has already applied with the appropriate appeal to the Azerbaijani authorities to grant him such a possibility, an informed source told Turan.
In his previous visit in April this year Melia was not granted such authorization. However, he visited the office of REAL, where he met with members of the Mamedov family and the executive secretary of RAL Natig Jafarli.
Mamedov was arrested Feb. 4 in connection with the unrest in the Ismayilli district on January 23-24. He is accused of organizing mass disorder and resisting the detention.
The human rights organization Amnesty International declared him a "prisoner of conscience".
Mamedov is running for President of Azerbaijan in the presidential election on October 9. -03B06 -
Politics
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
By the order of the head of state, Vusal Aslanov has been appointed Chairman of the Baku Metro CJSC.
Leave a review