FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The dismissal of Elchin Sadigov from the Bar Association is a preparation for a new wave of arrests...” (Lack of ) Human Rights and Freedoms Elchin Sadigov, a lawyer renowned for his advocacy on behalf of political activists and independent journalists, has been temporarily suspended from the Bar Association, along with two other unidentified lawyers. The Bar Association released a statement acknowledging the suspension of three lawyers, but did not disclose their identities. The suspension of Elchin Sadigov's professional activities...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 31.08.2020  FB community discusses the scandal with the falsified data on Azerbaijan, along with some other countries, used in Doing Business report of the WB,  continues to discuss events in Belarus, shares the statement by PFP about illegal detentions of its members , decries the continued attraction of the fake witnesses to the court hearing of Tofig Yagublu, FB community closely follows events in Belarus, solidarizing with the protesters. They share an information that former head of state Shushkevich called for depriving of Russian language of the status of official...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 25.12.2019 The most popular topic on FB is the municipal election which took place on 23 December 2019 and preparations for the parliamentary elections in February 2020. Some popular leaders -human rights defenders, civil activists, young politicians, such as Mehman Huseynov, Ziya Guliyev report on the results of their participation in the municipal elections, while others, such as  Ilkin Rustamzadeh, Elchin Mammad, announce their running as candidates from various districts for the parliamentary elections. FB users widely share updated information and monitoring...


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Member organisations of the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) are deeply concerned by the continued politically motivated imprisonment of persons in Azerbaijan for exercising their right to freedom of expression. The IPGA calls on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to take immediate action to ensure the release of these persons and to hold Azerbaijan accountable for its obligations as a Member State. Although Azerbaijan is bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and international law to respect and protect the right to freedom of expression,...


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Should Azerbaijan join NATO? It was the topic of the roundtable on "NATO: Political and military alliance of the 21st century" organized by the Center for National and International Studies and the Embassy of Romania , NATO Contact Point Embassy in Azerbaijan on June 15, 2011. In her opening speech at the conference Leyla Aliyeva, President of the Center for National and International Studies emphasizes that in 1990s Azerbaijan was weaker, but had a consistent and firm policy of rapprochement with NATO. (more...)


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