Press Review 11/06/15

Official newspapers are full of materials about the First European Games opening on June 12.

Azadlyg writes about the refusal of visa to Baku for the British activist of Amnesty International Emma Hughes.

The Netherlands refused to host the second European Games, which need to spend 60 million Euros, calling the amount too heavy for the budget. However, official Baku quietly spends billions on the first European Games.

Reporters without Borders urged the international sponsor of the first European Games to assist in the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

AZAL makes 50 percent discount on tickets for tourists coming to the European Games in Baku.

Express focuses on the statement of official Baku regarding the June 8 hearing organized at the European Parliament in connection with the arrested human rights activists. Official Baku believes that it is the Armenian lobby.

Echo writes about the status of elevators in residential buildings. Most of them were established in the Soviet period and passed the deadline for their operation. It is not known what body will deal with the replacement of elevators.

Bizim Yol writes that because of the lack of quorum during the vote in the European Parliament on the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, the resolution was not adopted.

"A political scoundrel" is how the Chairman of a Parliamentary Committee Ali Huseynov called the Vice-President of the European Parliament Ulrike Lunacek because of her protection of human rights activists arrested in Azerbaijan.

Yeni Musavat states that on the agenda is the question of the resignation of Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in connection with the scandal around the diplomat Arif Mammadov, who criticized the officials for the fire in a 16-storey building in Baku.

The health status of the journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov kept in the MNS investigative jail has deteriorated due to the blood pressure.