FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “We urge the United Nations and Council of Europe bodies, as well as the European Union institutions and all like-minded states to use the momentum created by COP29 in Baku to raise the issue of growing numbers of political prisoners with Azerbaijani authorities on all bilateral and multilateral platforms and request to put an end to the persecution of critical voices...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms Anar Mammadli, the head of the Center for Monitoring Elections and Teaching Democracy (SMDT), faces charges under Article 206.3.2 of Azerbaijan's Criminal...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 03.05.2021 “…Amendment 907 is a “memorial of hypocrisy in international relations…” The FB community discusses Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s visit to Yerevan and Baku, and State Secretary Blinken’s call to Ilham Aliyev, continues to show mistrust towards the Minsk group of OSCE, decries new facts of corruption among bureaucrats and is shocked by new details of the investigation of the Ter-ter case; keeps human rights violations at the centre of attention and the situation with political prisoners, reacts with indignation to the schemes concerning registration...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.04.2021 “…Occupation by the Bolsheviks on 27 April is one of the most tragic days of our history…” FB users continue to  discuss the recognition of Biden of events of 1915 as a genocide and its impact on Azerbaijan-US relations, are concerned with the interruption of support for treatment of human rights defender Ogtay Gulaliyev, and the non-transparent  execution of restoration projects in the liberated regions, decry Russia’s disrespect of Azerbaijan’s sovereignty, to include Putin-Macron’s recent telephone conversation, commemorate the 101st year...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 26.04.2021 “…The source of power in Azerbaijan is not its people, as in the Constitution, but  Russian authoritarianism…” The FB community shows concern over the violation of the ceasefire in Zangilan region, over the burning of Turkish and Azerbaijani flags in Khankendi, and over Russia’s underlying intentions, keeping human rights violations and government ingroup fighting at the centre of attention; reports and shares pressing social issues and bureaucratic indifference, comments and reacts to the statement by US Joe Biden on the recognition of 1915 events...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 25.03.2021 “… They have enough stolen money for the benefits of all children in the world…”                                        The FB journalists, activists and bloggers are concerned with absence of access to Shusha for ordinary citizens and with the impact of Russian-Turkish relations on the Karabagh conflict; they appraise the strict policy of Joe Biden towards Putin and predict an end to autocratic regimes; support the messages of the US Embassy and the US president to Ilham Aliyev, and decry the conditions for the opposition political...


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