Azadlig writes that the applications to the Supreme Court against the former chief of MNS Eldar Mahmudov remained unaddressed. Hundreds of businessmen asked for the restoration of justice, but the Supreme Court left them unattended. All this confirms that Mahmudov’s dismissal was the result of struggle inside the power.
Echo with reference to the human rights defender Eldar Zeynalov says that in Azerbaijan about 30 inmates commit suicide every year. It is necessary to improve the psychological work in places of detention, as long sentences push prisoners to suicide.
Therefore, the presence of a psychologist in custody is necessary, says the human rights activist.
Novoye Vremya writes that Ilham Aliyev participated in the event connected with Syria in London. The author Rovshan Aliyev believes it promises nothing good for Azerbaijan. In the Middle East confrontation is growing between the West and Russia, so Baku could be drawn to very tough political games, the author believes.
Yeni Musavat writes that the central square of the village of Nardaran is still under the control of the Interior Troops. For several months they do not let anyone into the village except the residents. Cars from outside are not allowed either, except for shuttle buses. The villagers are dissatisfied with the size of the compensation issued for demolition of housing - 500 manats per 1 sq. meter. Religious slogans have been removed from the walls in the village, and 12 million AZN has been allocated for the reconstruction of the village.
Bizim Yol publishes an article by Ramid Ibrahimov that dozens of projects have remained unfinished in Baku. Tens of thousands of people have remained without jobs. There are a lot of unfinished projects, including the Olympic sports complex in Absheron, which should have been launched in 2015.
The construction of the hotel Baku in the center of the capital and the establishment of the Baku State University campus stopped.
The executive power of the Yasamal district cannot pay the promised compensation to the residents of Soviet Street. –0--
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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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The National Hydrometeorology Service of Azerbaijan has forecast a mostly dry and cold day across the country on February 11, with occasional cloud cover in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula.
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Afiyaddin Mamedov, chairman of the trade union NGO “Workers’ Table Confederation,” has launched an indefinite hunger strike in prison to protest what he describes as worsening social conditions and the arrests of citizens in Azerbaijan, his family said on Friday.
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A fire erupted in a multi-story residential building in Khirdalan, Absheron district, prompting an immediate response from Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (FHN), authorities said on Saturday.
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