Press Review 11/26/14

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev's visit to the European Games site under construction, about his participation in the opening of the new building of the Baku "Oxford" school, as well as a meeting with the CEO of BBC Global News.

Azadlig writes about the arrest of Mehman Salimov, former Deputy of the Defense Minister Safar Abiyev.

MP Ali Huseynli considers that the European Court cannot make decisions about anyone’s release, referring to the decision in the cases of Ali Insanov and Ilgar Mamedov.

The newspaper thinks it means ignoring Azerbaijan's commitments to the Council of Europe.

November 25 a member of the Board of PPFA Asif Yusifli disappeared. His whereabouts are unknown.

In Nakhchivan the police illegally kept in custody the mother and the wife of the arrested activist of PPFA Hijran Gasimli for 13 hours.

The lawyer Ramiz Mammadov, after a meeting with Leyla Yunus said that his client is living out her last few months, maybe weeks.

Pressures on the convicted believers in prisons increase because they refuse to write a petition for pardon.

The son of the head of SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev is the owner of five companies and a recreation centre in Turkey.

Express writes with reference to the Interior Ministry, that for the first 9 months of this year 4,195 crimes were committed on family and domestic violence.

Echo writes about the absence of statistics on doctors’ malpractice in Azerbaijan, so doctors are not responsible for their mistakes.

Bizim Yol writes that former Defense Minister Safar Abiyev is banned from leaving the country.

The Azerbaijan Railway has purchased 30 new wagons for the forthcoming launch of the railway Baku-Tbilisi-Kars.

Yeni Musavat writes about the decision of the judge of the Nasimi District Court, Elman Isayev, to extend the arrest of the journalist Rauf Mirkadirov for 5 months without the lawyers’ participation.