On March 4 jury of the “Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk” announced the names of the five finalists, including the winner will be elected in 2015. All finalists are either in prison, or are subjected to threats because of defense of human rights.
According to the press release of the organization, based in Ireland, among the finalists are :
Juan Carlos Flores Solís - ecologist from Mexico;
Diane Marie Rodríguez - defender of the rights of minorities from Ecuador;
Guo Feixiong - a human rights activist from China;
Rasul Jafarov - human rights activist from Azerbaijan;
Yara Sallam - Egyptian lawyer.
Winner will be announced shortly. -16D-
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Variable cloudiness is expected in Baku and Apsheron peninsula on Sunday, 28 July.
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As part of the struggle against illegal migration in Baku city, operative actions were carried out at different addresses. The Interior Ministry reports that employees of the Department for Combating Illegal Migration identified and detained 34 foreigners without documents giving the right to reside and stay on the territory of Azerbaijan.
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On July 25, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense accused Armenia of "provoking" by deploying heavy weapons in Kalbajar and quadcopters in the Tovuz direction. The ministry also expressed dissatisfaction and concern over Armenia's military cooperation with Western countries.
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During the operation of the Main Drug Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 5 members of an organized group engaged in drug trafficking were detained. All of them have previous convictions: Bahlul Ismayilov, Royal Aliyev, Khayal Aliyev, Samir Aghayev, and Ali Mammadli.
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