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Civil Society Forum on the last legal amendments to the NGO legislation: their meaning and consequences in the context of Azerbaijan  

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In response to the number of restrictive amendments to the NGO law adopted by the Azerbaijani Parliament- Milli Majlis in the end of December and as a follow up of the last conference by the CNIS and CLI the group of leading NGOs ( among them Public Intitiave Center, Center for National and International Studies, Azerbaijan Chapter of Helsinki Civil Assembly and many others) decided to restore created in 2009 the Civil Society Defence Committee ( CSDC) . It was agreed to conduct a series of activities directed to the prevention of signing of the amendments into the law by the president of the republic....


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08.09.2022  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The proposed Law on Political Parties serves to dismantle the legal framework of the political system.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The Baku Court of Appeal returned the appeal of the Surakhani District Court regarding the denial of conditional release of human rights defender Elchin Mammad. The NGO “Legal Education of Sumgayit Youth,” headed by Mammad, shared a statement regarding the decision of the court. Mammad regards this as a violation of his right to appeal to the court. Although Mammad had no previous disciplinary...


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18.08.2022  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Corruption is not only taking a bribe, hiring a relative, but also harassing and abusing female colleagues.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties In the past couple of days, several members of APFP were summoned to the police offices. Murad Adilov, the brother of APFP activist Natig Adilov, was taken to the police, and Gadir Khudabakhsiyev, an activist of the Mingachevir branch of the party, was also taken to the police. Moreover, APFP member, late Elnur Farajov’s father, Huseyn Farajov, was kidnapped by unknown persons in black masks....


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07.07.2022  

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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “If the suicide of Karabakh veterans in this country no longer creates a public outrage and if it has become just a statistic, then we are all guilty.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Ilham Hasanov, a veteran of the Second Karabakh War, set himself on fire in front of the building of the Shamkir District Executive Authority as a sign of protest. He was hospitalized in serious condition. According to the doctors, the veteran admitted to the hospital has severe burn injuries. Hasanov was awarded the medal "for distinction...


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13.06.2022  

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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The government, which is interested in attracting tourists and investment to the country, would establish a normal judicial, health, and police system in the country.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The Muslim Union Movement has appealed to human rights organizations, NGOs, and theologians, as well as a number of political and public figures, regarding the hunger strike of the members of the movement in prison. The appeal says: “While this situation has reached this point, it is necessary to address you as the leading...


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09.06.2022  

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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI “The Azerbaijani government is committing all kinds of illegal acts in order to prevent the open trial of the deported migrants it has arrested under false pretenses.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The chairperson of the Citizen and Progress Party, political prisoner Ali Aliyev has started a hunger strike. Aliyev was sentenced to five months in prison on trumped-up charges. His detention was later extended for another month on another charge. As a protest against the extension of the detention period for several more months, Aliyev started a hunger strike....


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02.06.2022  

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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Karabakh was not liberated but was handed over from occupying Armenia to the corrupt Aliyev government.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The National Council of Democratic Forces issued a statement on the continuation of repressions and political arrests in Azerbaijan. The statement read: On May 28, the day when the Azerbaijani people celebrated Independence and Republic Day, the government of Ilham Aliyev began to fabricate a criminal case against another of his political rivals. APFP activist Razi Alishov was detained...


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10.03.2022  

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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Putin wants to show that he is not only involved in Ukraine but also the military situation in Karabakh is under his control.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties On International Women’s day, the Azerbaijani Feminist activists organized a rally in Fountain Square in the center of Baku. Participants of the "March 8 - we can not be silenced" rally said that complaints of violence against women in Azerbaijan are not properly investigated, and the police advise the complainants to reconcile with their husbands and return home,...


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03.03.2022  

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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The British government shouldn’t bother to think about the sanctions against Azerbaijan because the Azerbaijani government has already imposed tougher sanctions on its people.” The War in Ukraine. Russia’s Aggression Continues as it Commits War Crimes. In his social media address, the chairman of APFP Ali Karimli noted that  “in the current age of the internet and social media, the Ukrainian people and international community get immediately aware of any inhuman acts carried out by the Russian army against the civilian...


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21.02.2022  

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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Almost every day, while more than half of the population live below the poverty line, there is news about a new corruption scandal, money laundering, and long lists of illegal properties of the oligarchs and officials.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Head of APFP Ali Karimli argued that the government is preparing for the next wave of repressions and crackdown. Karimli wrote: They are preparing to crack down on people who do not break the law and don’t have any intention to go beyond the peaceful demonstrations. I officially...


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14.02.2022  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI       FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The fact that Mehdiyev calls the members of parliament “trolls and fake MPs” is the highest recognition of the truth that has long been known to all.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was summoned to the Baku Main Police Office and threatened to stop posting against the minister of internal affairs on social media. The activist was told that “there are many policemen who are ready to take off their service stripes and punish him, which would...


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10.02.2022  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI       FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The fact that 281 people were tortured and treated inhumanely proves that torture is a state policy in this country.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Azadlig Newspaper reports that during the re-investigation of the Tartar crimes by the Prosecutor General's Office, another 163 people were identified as victims of torture. According to the prosecutor's office, 281 people were subjected to torture and inhuman treatment. Head of APFP Ali Karimli reacted to the statement by the Prosecutor...


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24.01.2022  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI       FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The corruption in the Azerbaijani government is like leprosy that infects and destroys anyone who touches it...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Exiled journalist Ganimat Zahid reports that “since the enactment of the new law on the media, the State Prosecutor's Office has become the General Administrative Censorship Office”. According to the journalist, every day, there is such news about someone being “taken to the police department”, "called by the police", "released,"...


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27.12.2021  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “In order to survive and succeed under a dictatorship or authoritarianism, people must lie, join the general flow of flattery, turn a blind eye to injustice, give up their rights, and surrender to fear...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The participants of the rally "Freedom for Saleh Rustamli!" held on December 1 in Fountain Square who were arrested have been recently released. However,  Ilham Huseyn, one of the five people arrested during the rally, is still in jail. According to the head of APFP Ali Karimli, the regime demonstrates...


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13.12.2021  

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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Not only the opposition in Azerbaijan but also those who oppose the Azerbaijani government around the world risk losing their livelihoods...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The US State Department and the Council of Europe's co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan called on the authorities to release Saleh Rustamli immediately. On Saturday, a group of APFP activists held a rally in the city center demanding the release of Saleh Rustamli. Police violently destroyed the rally. Nineteen protesters (13 of them are members of the PPFA) and human...


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Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 22.11.2021 “In a country where human destinies are destroyed, there is no need for a teacher to be honored.” Post War Situation. Problems of veterans and families of the martyrs. Azadlig newspaper reports that war veteran Ulvi Isgandarov who was only 24, committed suicide. Isgandarov was struggling with the psychological traumas of the war and financial difficulties, according to his close ones. Like many war veterans, Isgandarov was denied to receive any state support. According to his former teacher, Isgandarov...


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Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 18.11.2021 “People in both countries must understand that Russia is not bringing peace to the region, but blood.” Post-War Situation. Is it a past or ongoing war? Is there an end to the war? Fear of another war? The week has been marked with the clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan that resulted in at least eight causalities that is the worst fighting since the war of the last year. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry released the information on November 17 that seven Azerbaijani servicemen were killed and ten were...


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Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 11.11.2021 “If before the war there was one occupier, now after the war there are two occupying forces.” Celebrations in Baku. Who is the real winner? The Assessments of the outcome of the war. The situation of war veterans.  This week marks the first anniversary of the Second Karabakh War, which resulted in bringing the vast majority of the region under the control of Azerbaijan with a death toll of over five thousand and thousands of injured people. While Baku residents celebrated Victory Day on the streets...


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          11.11.2021 “If before the war there was one occupier, now after the war there are two occupying forces.” Celebrations in Baku. Who is the real winner? The Assessments of the outcome of the war. The situation of war veterans.  This week marks the first anniversary of the Second Karabakh War, which resulted in bringing the vast majority of the region under the control of Azerbaijan with a death toll of over five thousand and thousands of injured people. While Baku residents celebrated Victory Day on the streets with fireworks on Monday,...


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Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 11.11.2021 “If before the war there was one occupier, now after the war there are two occupying forces.” Celebrations in Baku. Who is the real winner? The Assessments of the outcome of the war. The situation of war veterans.  This week marks the first anniversary of the Second Karabakh War, which resulted in bringing the vast majority of the region under the control of Azerbaijan with a death toll of over five thousand and thousands of injured people. While Baku residents celebrated Victory Day on the streets...


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