Press Review 04/20/15

Official newspapers publish amendments to several laws of the country.

The Azerbaijan newspaper publishes a lengthy article about human rights violations in Europe.

Azadlig writes that the tensions between official Baku and the United States reached their peak. Azerbaijani authorities took aim at critics of the White House.

A police officer in Imishli Rabil Ibayev killed and then burned the corpse of his workmate Mukhtar Kazymov.

A group of prominent journalists and writers turned to the United States US Secretary of State Kerry with a proposal to impose sanctions against Azerbaijani officials.

The newspaper writes that a relative of General Baylar Eyubov (Head of the Security of the Head of State) seized the land of the villagers in Yashma of the Khizi region. Nobody responds to the complaints of the villagers.

The sharp decline in export and import growth in Azerbaijan is considered as a signal of SOS for the economy.

Yeni Musavat argues that French President Hollande arrives in Baku with a special mission for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

The newspaper claims that armed clashes could occur between employees in the Ministry of Taxes because of unfair personnel policy.

The paper makes these conclusions on the basis of "denunciation" from an anonymous source.

MP Sabir Rustamkhanli and Firudin Parvinya were re-elected co-chairs of the World Azerbaijanis Congress at its congress held recently in Istanbul.  –0--