A Congressman, Co-chair of the Working Group of the US Congress on Azerbaijan Bill Shuster made a statement in connection with the 25th anniversary of the January tragedy, reported the Azerbaijani embassy in the United States.
Schuster condemned the bloody action of Soviet troops against civilians in Azerbaijan on 20 January 1990, which resulted in hundreds of people killed and wounded.
It was a warning from the communist regime to the other republics of the Soviet Union.
January 20 rallied the people of Azerbaijan, and the result of this process was the declaration of independence of Azerbaijan.
The US congressman expressed gratitude to the Azerbaijani people for friendship with the United States. -16D04-
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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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