Washington on Friday reacted to the recent arrest of Ali Aliyev, chairman of the Citizens and Development Party, and a vocal government critic in Azerbaijan, who was convicted on defamation charges last month.
"We were disappointed by Mr. Aliyev’s criminal conviction." a State Department spokesperson told TURAN’s Washington correspondent. "We urge the government of Azerbaijan to respect its international obligations, including the right to freedom of expression."
*Ali Aliyev was sentenced to five months in prison on charges of libel on January 13, following an interview he gave to the "Osmanqızı TV" Youtube channel last December, where he had raised his doubts about the official narrative involving some survivors of a recent helicopter crash.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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