US Jewish Committee: Bravo to Azerbaijan
"The Azerbaijani government has shown unflinching courage and determination in dealing with the periodic terrorist machinations emanating from its southern neighbor," said AJC Executive Director David Harris, who last visited Baku in July and met with President Ilham Aliyev. "Bravo to Azerbaijan for standing strong and setting an example for others on how to confront the scourge of international terrorism."
The 22 Azerbaijanis sentenced this week were originally arrested in March, and charged with assisting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in plots to attack the Israeli and U.S. embassies, and other targets in Baku. The defendants received sentences ranging from three to 13 years imprisonment.
Baku has been an Iranian target for years. In 2007, Azerbaijan convicted 15 people in a foiled plot to attack several foreign targets in Baku, including the U.S. and British embassies.
And, also this year, individuals with links to Iran and Hezbollah, who were planning to attack foreign citizens in Azerbaijan, were arrested in February. A month earlier, Azerbaijan foiled an Iranian plan to kill two rabbis and the Israeli ambassador in Baku. That plot coincided with the foiled Iranian attempt on the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the car bombing of an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in New Delhi, India. -25D-
Politics
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The mother of economist Fazil Gasimov, who is on a hunger strike for the 45th day in prison, appealed to the public on July 28 to help free her son and save him from death.
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On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
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From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
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President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
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