FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Azerbaijani government should prevent further escalation of the tensions in the region and work closely with the West to continue peace negotiations...”                                    (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Member of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) Gulnara Rahimova was sentenced to community service as a result of the court order. Rahimova denied the accusations and said that she was doing her job documenting the illegal activities of the police. Rahimova’s Facebook post: “Today, I was summoned...


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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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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties On August 22, activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was stopped by police officers dressed in civilian clothes while walking on the street and was forcibly taken to the Baku City Police Department. Hajiyev was released after his critical posts on Facebook were deleted. Hajiyev previously said that he was openly threatened by the police if he kept criticizing the Minister of Internal Affairs Vilayat Eyvazov. After his complaints were ignored by the Ministry, Hajiyev submitted his application for renunciation...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The reaction of the authorities and the public to the mass suicide of veterans is not adequate.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Aziz Mamiyev, an activist of the Musavat party, shared in his Facebook post that he was tortured while in detention. According to Mamiyev,  he was severely tortured after being detained by the police at the rally held in July demanding the opening of the land borders. Mamiyev shared one of the police officers’ photo who had tortured him.  Journalist Gulnara Rahimova, who witnessed the police brutality,...


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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The procedure for registration of political parties by the Ministry of Justice is very long, not transparent, and decisions are based on political instructions, not the law.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Azerbaijan Popular Front Party member Gulnara Rahimova was dismissed from her job at City Apartment Hotel. According to Rahimova, when the managers of the hotel found out that she was a member of APFP and posted views critical of the regime on various social networks, they started emotional abuse to intimidate her at work....


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 11.10.2021 “Thirteen-year imprisonment neither can frighten me nor can it turn me away from my way.” Governance, economy, corruption. New appointees to the executives of city councils raise the question of their accountability and transparency in management. FB community debates whether the current state- the head of executive power in the cities is appointed by the president- can explain the root causes of the problems in the cities such as Baku. As a result of current law, the unchecked power is concentrated...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 07.10.2021 "She has been waiting for a year to kiss his "iron fist" What is Patriotism? Journalist in exile Sevinc Osmangizi shared a video in which a middle-aged woman is passionately telling president Aliyev that she has been dreaming of kissing his “iron fist” as a gesture to offer her endless gratitude and respect to the president for his victory in the war. The video ends with Aliyev refusing her to kiss his hands but instead hugging her. The footage caused mixed feelings among social media users,...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 24.05.2021 “...Of all Minsk group co-chairmen, Russia is the most dangerous, exactly because she created this problem…” The FB community is extremely concerned with the lack of information about the new agreement to be signed between the two states, obtained mainly from Armenian sources; comments on the speech of Ilham Aliyev at the meeting with foreigners at the Nizami Ganjavi Centre, continues to discuss the inter-ethnic tensions in Georgia and suspects Russia behind it, is shocked by the state’s...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 01.06.2020 The new  information  of the protest action in front of the Ministry of Education by the students movement, reports about Pashinian and his family being infected and launch of the commercial space shuttle Dragon by Elon Musk was widely shared and commented on, as well as topics of National Independence day, the attitude of the president Aliyev to the history and the founders of the republic, Karabagh issue and Ramil Safarov, corruption of the foreign minister and other officials, blockade of Ali Karimli...


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