FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “As long as the Russian “peacekeeping” forces are in the region, the will be no prospect of peace.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Azadlig newspaper reports that female journalists reporting in front of the Presidential Office faced police brutality. The security guards of the Presidential Administration used force against journalists Fatima Movlamli, Nargiz Absalamova, and Aytaj Tapdig, who were covering the protest. Elchin Adalat oghlu Pashayev, a veteran who complained about Asif Aghayev, the executive head of Beylagan...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Not only the opposition in Azerbaijan but also those who oppose the Azerbaijani government around the world risk losing their livelihoods...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The US State Department and the Council of Europe's co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan called on the authorities to release Saleh Rustamli immediately. On Saturday, a group of APFP activists held a rally in the city center demanding the release of Saleh Rustamli. Police violently destroyed the rally. Nineteen protesters (13 of them are members of the PPFA) and human...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The authorities have been trying to instill fear in the people […], and by doing so, they want to say that they don’t have any values and there is nothing for them to be afraid of...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties A veteran of the First Karabakh war, Saleh Rustamli is on hunger strike for a month, and the authorities have yet to decide on his release. Activist Agil Layij reports that together with lawyers Behruz Bayramov, Yalchin Imanov, and Tural Agayev, they have prepared an application for Saleh Rustamov (Rustamli), who has been...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Do you know why the police tie the detainees’ hands and eyes when they beat them? Because they are afraid. They are afraid that one day the time will come and they will pay for what they have done...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties.  On Wednesday, more than 40 people were detained during a rally in Fountain Square in Baku. The peaceful protestors were demanding the release of political prisoner Saleh Rustamli, who has been on a hunger strike for 25 days. Activist Ilkin Rustamzadeh, one of the organizers of the rally, and Ramiz...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 14.10.2021 “I want to drown because I breathe in a country where people try to vindicate the rapist instead of standing with the girl who was raped at the age of 16. ” Governance, economy, corruption. FB community reacts to president Aliyev’s interview with Italian La Repubblica. In an interview to the Italian newspaper, Ilham Aliyev said in response to the question about the "Pandora Papers" that he had been president for eighteen years, and before that, he was a successful businessman. Responding to the accusations, Aliyev said that after becoming president,...


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