Politics - 2015
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On behalf of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Elena Valenciano (S&D, ES) expressed her deep concern regarding the Azeri court decision to sentence Leyla and Arif Yunus to...
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Today in Baku Serious Crimes Court access to the trial of Khadija Ismayilova was again limited. However, unlike previous days, several restrictions were "gentle" in nature.Thus, the mother and several...
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«Azerbaijan authorities are doing everything possible to put pressure on independent civil society in the country." This was stated by the representative of the Human Rights House Foundation Anne Tusv...
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“The unprecedented speed with which the Yunus trial was carried out is appalling and tells us a lot about its quality. The judgement is full of inaccuracies due to a total lack of examination of the e...
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On 13 August, 2015 an Azerbaijani court has sentenced human rights defender Leyla Yunus and historian Arif Yunus to 8.5 years and 7 years respectively, following questionable allegations of tax evasio...
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After a Baku, Azerbaijan court sentenced human rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus to 8,5 years and seven years, respectively, in prison, Helsinki Commission Chair Rep. Chris Smith issued the fo...
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The US State Department expressed condemned sentence of Leyla and Arif Yunus in Azerbaijan."The United States is deeply troubled by today’s decision of an Azerbaijani court to sentence human rights an...
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A court in Baku on August 13, 2015, convicted the human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus who had faced politically motivated prosecution for economic crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Leyla...
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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following in response to sentencing of civil society activists in Azerbaijan.Senator Cardin has b...








