Vidadi Iskanderov is included a virtual football team, "Defenders of Euro-2012"

International Fund  to  Protect Human Rights Defenders, Front Line Defenders , launched a campaign "Human Rights Defenders Euro 2012" in defense of imprisoned human rights defendershttp://www.sportshrd.org/index.html

The campaign is timed for the European Championships – 2012, and its organizers rely on  the support of the international community to release  human rights defenders.

The keynote of the campaign  is an appeal  of the Nobel laureate, Nelson Mandela: "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire ... Sport can awaken hope there,  where previously there was only despair."

Front Line Defenders has created a virtual football field,  at which  symbolically are 11 players, and under each of them is the name of one of the imprisoned human rights defenders.  Under number “four”  is  an Azerbaijani human rights activist Vidadi Iskanderov, who was arrested and sentenced to three years  of imprisonment after the parliamentary elections, in which he participated as a candidate.

The visitor of the  page «HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS EURO 2012» http://www.sportshrd.org/euro2012.html has the opportunity to write a letter of support to any defender - a symbolic football team member.

     The list includes:

     1. Makhul Amir (Israel)

     2. Ales Bialiatski (Belarus)

     3. Oleg Volchek (Belarus)

     4. Vidadi Iskander (Azerbaijan)

     5. Dores Polikarpou (Cyprus)

     6. Lukran Ahmediyarov (Kazakhstan)

     7. Muharram Erbey (Turkey)

     8. Mourad Dhina (France)

     9. Agnes Gareb (Hungary)

     10. Sviatoslav Sheremet (Ukraine)

     11. Rose Tuletaeva (Kazakhstan). -0 –