Press Review 12/22/14

Official newspapers publish Decrees of the President to approve the changes to the tax and family codes.

Azadlig writes that the human rights activist Anar Mammadov was transferred to the colony number 13, and his deputy Bashir Suleymanli - a colony №2.

The newspaper writes that US sanctions against President Ilham Aliyev will be applied in the near future.

Head of European Stability Initiative Gerald Knauf accuses the Council of Europe in inaction against human rights violations in Azerbaijan. He urged to apply sanctions against the official Baku.

The Jerusalem Post accuses Ilham Aliyev of despotism.

The MP Samad Seyidov said that the representatives of foreign countries, who praise the official Baku, are criticized in their countries.

Yeni Musavat writes that the son of the head of Ministry of Transport Ziya Mammadov is withdrawing a football club from the businessman Hafiz Mammadov. Mammadov accuses the Minister’s son of fraud, claiming that he had forged his signature and assumed the football club Lance.

  Anar Mammadov demanded that before the end of December Hafiz Mammadov gave him the football club Baku, as well as a sports base worth 10 million manat.

A plane flying from Kiev to Tbilisi made an emergency landing in Yerevan due to technical problems. 25 Azerbaijanis from the plane were offered to go to Tbilisi by road.

The Shirvan Administrative Economic Court refused to accept the claim of four journalists who were beaten during the protest rally of the National Council in Sabirabad a year ago. The Judge Elkhan Amiraliyev stated that the actions of the police were legal.