Press Review 04/28/15

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev's participation in the torch lighting ceremony of the first European Games.

Azadlyg writes that the Maltese press criticized the mysterious agreement signed with SOCAR.

National Press Club of Sweden awarded the Anna Politkovskaya Award to the arrested journalist Khadija Ismailova.

German Bild urged athletes to boycott the European Games in Baku due to the repression of civil society in this country.

At a meeting with French President Hollande Ilham Aliyev said that Leyla Yunus is not a political prisoner, and the courts in Azerbaijan are independent. Aliyev thus answered to the request of Hollande to release Leyla Yunus.

Express writes that the company Nurgun Motors intends to take action against media structures disseminating information about the arrest of the heads of several auto salons of the company.

Echo argues that the Baku Bay is not polluted by sewage. In cleaning the bay from accumulated oil deposits not foreign, but domestic companies will be involved.

Bizim Yol writes that 2,000 employees of the former Land Committee cannot receive their due wages for two months.

The Sumgayit resident Anar Suleymanov, who exposed people cutting down trees, was invited to a mental examination.

Yeni Musavat

Human rights activists seek to arrange a meeting with President Aliyev to pardon Tofig Yagublu, who recently lost his daughter. -0-