The UN intends to make recommendations to the Government of Azerbaijan to respect the fundamental rights of its people and implement freedoms. This statement was given by the head of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) Emin Huseynov to Objective TV.
Since Azerbaijan's accession to the Council of Europe, OSCE and other international organizations the Azerbaijani authorities have repeatedly violated the ratified Convention, as evidenced by the reaction of the international community.
According to Huseynov, the Azerbaijani government does not fulfill its commitments, including the right of journalists to life and privacy, does not punish violence against journalists, promotes apprehension and arrest of the media for political reasons, and legally restricts freedom of expression, carrying out state control over the media.
Since its accession to the Council of Europe (25 January 2001), hundreds of attacks on journalists have been committed. In two of these cases (the founder of the magazine Monitor, Elmar Huseynov, and the writer and journalist Rafiq Tagi), the journalists were killed.
The government actively invades in the privacy of journalists (for example Ganimat Zahid, Azer Akhmedov, Khadija Ismayilova and many others), inflicting psychological pressure. Today, dozens of journalists unwanted by the government of Azerbaijan are literally pushed out of the country and forced to live in exile.
Azerbaijan ratified the UN Convention against Corruption, however, instead of transparency, the Parliament legislated releasing only limited information about the founders of firms and companies. This was done in order to hide their identity, as most entrepreneurs are high-ranking officials, in contradiction to international standards. Such restrictions prohibit freedom of information and impede the investigation and publication of corruption.
All this was said at the UN session. Besides Huseynov, Azerbaijan was represented by the Chairman of the Legal Education Society, Intigam Aliyev, and the President of Human Rights Club, Rasul Jafarov. They touched almost all the fundamental rights and freedoms and violations faced by citizens of the country.
At the forum there were representatives of many nations. The Europeans spoke about gender equality, protection of minors, animals, and ecology. Against this background, the lack of guarantees for the freedom of life, assembly, expression, private property, and assembly in Azerbaijan is nonsense.
If the government does not establish a dialogue with citizens and does not try to solve the mentioned problems, our country cannot keep up and be on the side of the world, said Huseynov. - 17D-
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