Press Review 11/18/14

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev’s meeting with members of the Supreme Religious Council of Caucasian Peoples, as well as about the President welcoming the Conference on Religious Tolerance.

The same newspapers publish a decree on the allocation of 2 million manat for the socio-economic development of the Shamkir region and the appointment of Taleh Ziyadov as the CEO of Baku International Sea Trade Port.

Azadlig writes that in the UK protests began over the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, and against companies cooperating with the Aliyev regime.

A similar event took place in front of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Belgium.

A young political activist, Chairman of the public association Positive Changes, Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was forced to emigrate from Azerbaijan.

The Baku Court of Appeal held a preliminary hearing on the appeal against the court's decision to transfer the Chairman of the Islamic Party Movsum Samedov to the Gobustan prison.

Up to 70 socio-political activists appealed to the leadership of the country and declared their readiness to assume the guarantee for Intigam Aliyev, for whom they asked to change the measure of restraint.

Express writes that, with the fall in oil prices, the value of housing in Baku will also drop.

Echo writes that in the 11 months of this year the country registered 1,180 facts of food poisoning.

Bizim Yol cites the opinion of the former Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Unal Chevikez, who asserts the necessity of opening the border between Turkey and Armenia.

The newspaper writes on the suspension of the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway by the Turkish side in connection with a major theft.

Yeni Musavat writes about the crisis in the business of the known businessman Telman Ismailov. For this reason, Abbas Abbasov left Ismailov’s company.

The newspaper claims that Anar Mammadov, the son of the Minister of Transport will get a seat in parliament in the upcoming elections.

Authorities continue to obstruct the opposition to participate in the municipal elections.

The human rights activist Mirvari Gahramanli argues that local experts in the oil field are forced to leave the country because of low wages, while the foreign oil companies bring specialists with high salary to Azerbaijan.

Serving a life sentence in the Gobustan prison, the former fighter of Special Police Troops, Arif Kazimov has been on hunger strike for 10 days due to the refusal to allow his meetings with relatives.