Want to say - 2014
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When the American ambassador to oil-rich Azerbaijan opened a veterinary laboratory in the small town of Goygol earlier this year, the U.S. embassy put out a press releaseto commemorate the landmark ev...
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It is clear that he will not stop, and they will unlikely stop him. Many say that all this is an agreement with the West, he does what he wants, and they pretend that they do not like it. As a confirm...
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Journalists with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Servicereported today that police are pursuing them individually, going directly to their homes to take them in for questioning following a raid on the service's...
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The Baku bureau of RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has been sealed shut following a raid this morning by police and investigators from the state prosecutor's office that appears to be intended to silence...
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The National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) issued a statement condemning the search and closure of the Baku office of Radio Azadlig.The statement said that the search and the seizure of equipmen...
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The Institute for Democratic Initiatives (IDI) issued a report on the results of monitoring of municipal elections on December 23.The monitoring was conducted by a random check on 60 polling stations...
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It’s your birthday today and like countless other people I wish I could celebrate it in person with you. It pains me to imagine you in a prison cell, when for decades you’ve been a tireless fighter fo...
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To Leyla Yunus:Dear Leyla Khanum, please accept my heartfelt congratulations on the day of your birth, which not in vain, apparently coincided, as if in defiance, with the date of birth of a tyrant of...
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I am writing this letter with a heavy heart as I have been reading reports almost daily about your deteriorating health in detention. The news that you are so weak that you can barely walk, that you a...
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Dear Leyla Khanum, I congratulate you on your birthday and feel a sense of shame for you meet it in such dire circumstances. It is a shame for the country, for our intellectuals and for me that this b...
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Genève, 15/12/2014 Dear Leyla and Arif,I am writing to remind you of the support from all your friends and fellow campaigners with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coali...
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On December 11 the arrested human rights activist Leyla Yunus was thrown into solitary confinement. This happened after she refused a medical examination. She spoke about it to her lawyer Elchin Gamba...
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THE WORK of Khadija Ismayilova would be vital in any country but has been particularly courageous in Azerbaijan, the oil-rich sultanate ruled both before and after the Soviet collapse by Heydar Aliyev...
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Since July 30, 2014, my friend and sister activist Leyla Yunus has been unjustly detained by the Azerbaijani government. Her husband, historian Arif Yunus, was arrested and imprisoned six days later. ...
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The arrested journalist Khadija Ismayilova today called her colleagues from the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty from prison. Speaking of her arrest, she noted that she knew that sooner or later t...















