Press Review for 12/29/12

Official newspapers report on the participation of President Ilham Aliyev at the opening of the neurosurgical clinic after reconstruction, as well as in the New Year party for children, organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

Azadlig writes about the strange death of Sevinj Babayeva involved in a corruption scandal in a Turkish hospital.

Employees of the newspapers Azadlig and Yeni Musavat held a rally in front of the company Gasid to demand payment of the money due to them.

Economics University dismissed 12 teachers accused of bribery.

Zerkalo

Political prisoners existed, exist and will exist. The thing is to address the conditions that promote the emergence of new groups of prisoners, says a columnist.

Express

The Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Diaspora Nazim Ibragimov called the "union of billionaires" "an alliance of rebels."

Nineteen people were poisoned with carbon monoxide in Baku on 27 December.

Echo

In 2012, Azerbaijan registered more than three thousand early marriages.

In 2013 there will be 123 holidays and days off in Azerbaijan, so the residents of Azerbaijan will rest nearly a third of the year.

Bizim Yol

Commenting on the death of one of the participants of a corruption scandal Sevinj Babayeva in Turkey, lawyers claim that she was killed by the same people, who had brought her to Turkey from Azerbaijan.

Yeni Musavat

After the statement of Rasul Guliyev that he intends to return, a criminal case was filed against him on charges of attempting a coup. Guliyev, in turn, said that it would not stop him.