The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) on November 6 issued a statement condemning the ongoing pressure on the arrested human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her lawyers.
OMCT expresses surprise and indignation with the extension of the detention of Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus for another 4 months, and with the removal of their lawyers from their protection.
The organization calls on the authorities of Azerbaijan to take immediate and appropriate action to ensure the medical, physical and psychological integrity of the spouses Yunus, to stop the growing repression against Azerbaijani NGOs, and to immediately and unconditionally release the detained human rights defenders.
Moreover, OMCT recalls the UN Declaration of 9 December 1998 on the need to protect human rights and other international instruments ratified by the government of Azerbaijan, the commitments on human rights and fundamental freedoms. -16D-
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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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