Avaz Zeynalli, pardoned editor of "Khural" newspaper, today visited the Alley of Honors to lay flowers on the grave of Heydar Aliyev and his spouse Zarifa Aliyeva. Before that, he laid flowers to the Alley of Martyrs. In addition, he laid a wreath on the grave of ex-president Abulfaz Elchibey, and a number of other public and political figures.
Zeynalli was arrested in September 2011 on the complaint of the deputy Gular Akhmedova. He was subsequently sentenced to nine years on charges of extortion and tax evasion. He was recognized as a political prisoner, and for his release international organizations and local human rights activists fought for several years.
In jail, he constantly accused the authorities of the political order, and in particular, head of the presidential administration Ramiz Mehdiyev for organization of his arrest.-06D-
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"The admission rate to higher education institutions has increased over the past 10 years, which is a quantitative indicator," Azerbaijan’s Minister of Education Emin Amrullayev said on February 10 during the presentation of the World Bank's annual global report in Baku.
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Young programmers are set to represent Azerbaijan at International Olympiads The Institute of Education and “Azercell Telecom” LLC organized another "Winter Camp" for the national team preparing for the international informatics Olympiads. As part of this initiative, the schoolchildren had the unique opportunity to engage with Rahim Mammadli, a software engineer at Google, and Tarlan Suleymanov, an Oxford University graduate specializing in autonomous vehicle control. The experts conducted a master class on modern programming languages and technologies, sharing their knowledge and professional experience.
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On Wednesday, the weather in the capital will be cloudy. Towards the evening, light precipitation may occur in some areas of Absheron, and the north-western wind. The temperature at night will range from -1 to +2 degrees, and during the day it will be +3 to +7. The humidity will be 70-80% at night and 60-65% during the day.
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Meetings of the Amnesty Issues Commission under the President of Azerbaijan are set to resume, with expectations that a new presidential amnesty decree will be issued. The last such decree was signed on May 25 of the previous year, ahead of Independence Day (May 28). That decree covered 154 individuals, of whom 63 were released from imprisonment, while the sentences of 52 others were reduced by half. The remaining individuals were mostly freed from electronic monitoring or had their sentences commuted in other ways.
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