Press Review for 2/4/13

Official newspapers report on the participation of President Ilham Aliyev at the opening ceremony of new homes for the displaced. The same newspapers continue the smear campaign against the opposition.

Azadlig writes about the protests in Nardaran against the arrest of the theologian Taleh Bagirzadeh.

In Gabala and Lankaran protests were held with social demands. In particular, people complain about the failure to provide wages.

Political parties, commenting on the arrests of young people, believe that the authorities are trying to prevent the protest movement.

Zerkalo 

The nervous reaction of Tehran to the conference in Baku is an inadequate response, analysts of the newspaper said.

The ghost of drug addiction is covering Azerbaijan - on such charges youth activists are commonly arrested here.

Express

The former Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vilayati in his book entitled 'Azerbaijan' presented Azerbaijan as regions of Iran.

Echo

Many thousands of Azerbaijani children have no documents proving their existence.

By the standards of construction, one hectare of land should accommodate no more than 450 people, but in seismic zones there should be no more than 300.

Bizim Yol

A resident of Nakhchivan, Nazim Mahmudov was beaten by Turkish border police. Examination confirmed the presence of injuries, and a policeman awaits trial.

Yeni Musavat writes about the protests in Nardaran, the conference on South Azerbaijan and the note from Tehran.

The newspaper publishes an article in which U.S. Ambassador Richard Morningstar is named as a political technologist for Ilham Aliyev.