FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The quarantine regime gives additional opportunities to arrest people on false charges. Creating a closed society is the ideal of the family-feudal regime...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms The health condition of Anar Mammadli, the imprisoned head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS), has deteriorated, according to his relatives who visited him recently. Mammadli, who suffers from obstructive bronchitis, had been receiving treatment and regular inhalation therapy prior to his imprisonment. However, the lack of access to fresh...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI “Given the substantial number of prisoners subjected to torture and the conditions of their detention, activists and human rights advocates are expressing concerns about the well-being of incarcerated activists…” (Lack of ) Human Rights and Freedoms Fazail Aliyev, a member of the Gazakh District Branch of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), along with his son, was apprehended by the Gazakh District Police Department. Following a one-day detention, his son, Farid Aliyev, received a 30-day administrative detention sentence and he a 200 manats fine, after...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The fact that Azerbaijan helps Russia to break Western sanctions will have a serious impact on its image…”                                                                                                                                  (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The members of the board of directors of the “Democracy-1918” (D-18) movement, Afiyaddin Mammadov and Samir Sultanov, who were detained while protesting against the arrest of activist Bakhtiyar...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Gorbachev remains in the memory of Azerbaijanis as the main perpetrator of the January massacre in Baku.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Former political prisoner Aziz Mamiyev said that “all those who criticize Aliyev's policy are unemployed.” Mamiyev wrote:  “They fired everyone. We struggle with financial difficulties. Our friends say they have to find a job that pays daily as there is no guarantee for long terms jobs. Because once the regime arrests them and puts them in jail, the work remains unfinished. There are friends...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Participation in the Eurasian Union, one of Russia's imperial projects, with any status is not economic, but a political issue, an attempt to breathe life into the isolated Putin at the cost of harming the national interests of Azerbaijan.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Azadliq newspaper reports that Ziyafat Aliyev, a member of the APFP Bilasuvar district branch, was subjected to police brutality. “As soon as the police found out that I was a relative of Jamil Hasanli, they punched me in the mouth,” Aliyev told Azadliq newspaper....


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