During the raid of the State Committee to Work with Religious Associations (SCWRA), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and State Security Service (SSS) in the office of the religious community in the village of Batamdar in St. Neftchilar, 3 was identified literature and electronic media with banned religious content. The raid was carried out on the basis of the appeal of the Sabail District Executive Power. In particular, it identified 59 pieces of religious literature, 19 videotapes, 27 DVD and 80 CD. In addition, were confiscated items with "signs of obscurantism. Law enforcement agencies are carrying out investigation, read the message of the SCWRA. -16D-
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Meetings of the Amnesty Issues Commission under the President of Azerbaijan are set to resume, with expectations that a new presidential amnesty decree will be issued. The last such decree was signed on May 25 of the previous year, ahead of Independence Day (May 28). That decree covered 154 individuals, of whom 63 were released from imprisonment, while the sentences of 52 others were reduced by half. The remaining individuals were mostly freed from electronic monitoring or had their sentences commuted in other ways.
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The National Hydrometeorology Service of Azerbaijan has forecast a mostly dry and cold day across the country on February 11, with occasional cloud cover in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula.
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Afiyaddin Mamedov, chairman of the trade union NGO “Workers’ Table Confederation,” has launched an indefinite hunger strike in prison to protest what he describes as worsening social conditions and the arrests of citizens in Azerbaijan, his family said on Friday.
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A fire erupted in a multi-story residential building in Khirdalan, Absheron district, prompting an immediate response from Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (FHN), authorities said on Saturday.
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