Baku/19.09.16/Turan: On 16 September a lawyer Agil Laidjev defending the arrested financial director of the newspaper "Azadlig", the assistant chairman of the Popular Front Party Faig Amirov, sent an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Turan was told by Laidjev. According to him, the complaint raises questions about the unfounded arrest and violation of the presumption of innocence.
Amirov was detained on 20 August in the yard of his house. Two days later, the Nasimi district court arrested him for three months on charges of inciting religious hatred and illegally performed religious rituals. -16D-
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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