The Committee to Protect Civil Society (CPCS) on Wednesday held in the office of the Azerbaijan National Committee of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly regular meeting. The meeting discussed the preparation of the evaluation report on the chronicle of pressure on the institutions of civil society.
The report will reflect the questions of suspension of NGO activities, bringing their the heads of the investigation, the ban to travel abroad, as well as the health of the arrested activists. In addition, a statement was made about the pressure on independent lawyers. This pressure is not to provide the arrested activists with protection. When this bar is used as an instrument of pressure on the defenders. That board will initiate procedures of punishment advocates.
So, Aslan Ismailov was exclude from the Board of Bars, the authority of Khalid Bagirov were suspected, and a lawsuit depriving him of the status of a lawyer was filed. Previously were excluded from the Board Namizad Safarov, Gurban Mammadov, Elchin Namazov, and Osman Kazimov’s activity was suspended. In addition, on spurious pretexts were convicted many lawyers and human rights defenders Leyla Yunus and Intigam Aliyev. It was stated that in the former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan is a country where the number of lawyers per capita is less than anywhere. In a country with a population of 9 million people there are only 800 lawyers.
For example, in Azerbaijan there is not even one lawyer per 10,000 people, but in Georgia and Armenia, the number of lawyers on the same number of population is 8 and 3.
And with such a small number of lawyers in Azerbaijan the authorities “hunt” for political reasons.
CPCS urged society to embark on active defense lawyers.
* The CPCS was created in 2009 when the first wave of reaction amendments to the law on NGOs began. Then it included about 100 independent NGOs, including those organizations whose leaders are now under arrest. Presently, in connection with criminal prosecution of many NGOs and arrest of the leaders of some of them, about 20 activists are actively involved in CPCS. -05C06-
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