Washington will this week issue an election statement on Azerbaijani presidential election, "as soon as the process is over", TURAN's correspondent was told by the official sources.
The State Department on Monday refrained from commenting on the early assessments.
"We do have observers from the US Mission in Azerbaijan as well as US election experts that are part of the OSCE ODIHR mission that will be monitoring the situation on the ground. And after the elections are over, we will have a statement and make a comment on it then," Marie Harf, State Demartment Deputy Spokesperson, said during the daily press conference, October 9.
In the meantime, she referred the Department's previous call on the Azeri government as "there were some positive and negative parts of the run-up to this election."
"Certainly, we've called on the government to allow freedom of expression for folks to fully participate in the process."
When asked if there were violations during Wednesday election, she answered, "certainly, we'll have a comment on the elections. And if we have any credible reports about it, I'm happy to talk about it then."-025B-
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The trial of Aziz Orudjev, the head of the online publication Kanal-13, continued on February 5 at the Sabail District Court.
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On 4 February, the Baku Court of Appeal released former Russian judge Yelena Khakhaleva, who was arrested in Azerbaijan at the request of the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
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Afgan Sadygov, the head of the Azerbaijani website Azel.TV, who has been on a dry hunger strike since February 2 in the Tbilisi detention center, lost consciousness on Tuesday evening, his wife Sevinc Sadygova told Turan.
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On February 5, a preparatory hearing was held in the Baku Court for Serious Crimes, chaired by Vugar Ibrahimov, in the case of former diplomat Emin Ibrahimov. The main hearings are scheduled for February 12.
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