The hearing on the situation of human rights and corruption in the Third World will be held August 31 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The hearing will be attended by the Coordinator of the campaign Sport for Human Rights, Rebecca Vincent. On this she wrote in her micro blog on Twitter.
The hearing will be attended by representatives of the EU Foreign Policy Service and the European Commission. Vincent believes the EU should more strictly demand Baku respect human rights.
Activists of the campaign Sport for Human Rights believe that despite the release of a number of political and civil society activists from March to May 2016, the situation has not changed much and new arrests have been made recently.
This followed the initiation of a referendum on amendments to the Constitution, reinforcing the powers of the head of state, by the President of Azerbaijan. -16D-
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President Ilham Aliyev’s trip to the Kalbajar region.
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BAKU, 2 September 2024 – Azerbaijan's early parliamentary elections did not offer voters genuine political alternatives and took place within a legal framework overly restrictive of fundamental freedoms and the media, although they were efficiently prepared, international observers said in a statement today.
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The early parliamentary elections on September 1 were accompanied by serious violations, which dealt a blow to their democratic legitimacy, a statement by the Election Observation Alliance (EOA), which monitored the elections by a group of local experts and short-term observers. The political and legal environment of the elections was characterized by the concentration of power with the weakening of the opposition, which calls into question the fairness and transparency of the elections.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “If the Armenian authorities have a desire for direct negotiations with Azerbaijan without Russia's participation to resolve the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, then "for God's sake,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, speaking to teachers and students of the Moscow University of International Relations. Lavrov also noted that on the issue of delimitation of the state border, the Russian Federation should consult this process between the participants, but this is not happening.
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