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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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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