Press Review 24/05/13

Official newspapers write about the meetings with the co-president of the OSCE and NATO Deputy Secretary General. The same newspapers continue to slander the opposition. In particular, the newspaper Yeni Azerbaijan published a cartoon of a meeting of U.S. Ambassador Richard Morningstar with the leaders of the opposition.

Azadlig

Russian President Putin has refused to take part in the event in Baku, the newspaper explains this with complicated relations between the Kremlin and Baku.

For two weeks the German media was highly critical of the former German Foreign Minister Genscher praise for Ilham Aliyev.

Rewarding the human rights activist Leyla Yunus with the Order of Knight of the Legion of Honor of France is considered support of Azerbaijan's democratic forces.

The youth activist Rasul Mursalov faced violence in Prison No 14. The prison guards said that the culprit was placed in the "lock-up".

Zerkalo

Despite the fact that official Baku has announced free entrance to all the beaches, the situation in reality is quite different.

Bizim Yol writes about serious preparations for protests on June 1, it is associated with the protests against arrests.

MP from the ruling party Eldar Ibragimov made a surprise announcement that if the scholar Khalida Khalid violated laws in Iran, she should be arrested.

Yeni Musavat"

A special decree is prepared on liberation of the imprisoned ex-ministers Ali Insanov and Farhad Aliyev.