Press Review for 8/2/13

 

The main topics of today's newspapers are presidential decrees to deprive writer Akram Aylisli of the honorary title "People's Writer" and personal pensions. Official newspapers praise and endorse these presidential decrees.

 

Azadlig writes about ongoing repression of the participants of the events in Ismayilli and public appeals to international organizations that they not turn a blind eye to what is happening in Azerbaijan.

The campaign against Akram Aylisli is directly aimed against freedom of speech, according to the newspaper.

 

Zerkalo 

Akram Aylisli will be brought to justice. NGOs are ready to rewrite the criminal code.

In an article entitled "Voices in defense of those arrested," international organizations have called on the Azerbaijani authorities to change their mind.

 

Express wrote that each of the nine marriages in Azerbaijan fails. It cites a growing number of divorces.

 

In one of the houses of culture in Tehran, Azerbaijani dishes and traditional costumes are presented as Armenian.

 

Bizim Yol

City authorities began demolishing houses on Dilara Aliyeva and Tabriz Halibeyli streets.

 

Yeni Musavat writes that Russia is going to destabilize the situation in Baku using criminal gangs.

 

The Minister of Labor and Social Protection, headed by Fizuli Alekperov awards all tenders to Alekperov’s son.

 

Official Baku does not want to allocate space for the party congress of United Azerbaijan Popular Front, although the party is pro-government.

 

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