FB Digest@VoxPOPULI “Formula 1 is a snake and it is wrapped around the throat of the people who submit to this misery and oppression.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Activist Rabiya Mammadova’s mother was beaten by her colleagues on Friday. According to the activist, her mother who works as a cleaner was beaten by another cleaner who insulted her for her daughter’s activism. Rabiyya Mammadova said that lately, she has been trying to raise awareness about the issues that women from religious backgrounds face. Mammadova wrote: “Everyone knows that my mother is a cleaner,...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 03.12.2020   “When the verdict is issued, I want the world to see their faces ...” The FB community shares news on the liberation of the Lachin and Zangilan regions, but expresses concern about the delay in returning some parts of them; continues to denounce the arrival and behaviour of the Russian peacekeeping troops, calling them “occupiers”; criticizes the low size of compensation to families of killed troops; defines the principles of conflict resolution; criticizes the president’s choice of date for the National Victory Day, and decries the court’s...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 15.06.2020  The FB users continue to discuss the events of last weekend in Yasamal, the surge of infected and problems in health system in connection with it, the pressure on activists, the corruption of bureaucrats, relations within the opposition camp, the official “Day of Revival”, the Karabagh issue. The police violence during the weekend 5-8 June remains one of the hottest topics on FB. Altay Geyushov  comments on the Yasamal events, that it revealed that the tactic- “ I do not see anything, do my own business, do not get involved in politics, hide quietly...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 08.06.2020 The most discussed topic these days is police brutality in enforcement strict quarantine rules and the protest of the dwellers of the complex during last weekend, shortage of bread, frictions within the opposition camp, persecution of the activists and their conditions in prison, the situation with pandemic in Azerbaijan and the government policy, the first democratic elections in 1992, short-lived Elchibey government and the reasons of its defeat. The FB pages were full of the video showing police brutality during the detention of those who violated the strict...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 04.06.2020 The leading topics these days are the protest action of students in front of the Ministry of Education and arrest of the 18 year old Rustam Ismayilbeyli, increased pressure on Ilkin Rustamzade, the clash between the passengers of the metro and the policemen, corruption scandals of bureaucrats, the illness of the ex-political prisoner and the candidate in the recent local election Mehman Huseynov, speech of the president before the refugees, the Karabagh issue, commemorate the 4th of June 1993- the coup d’etats, or colonel rebellion, which overthrew democratically...


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