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 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, with the majority finding it shameful and disgraceful. While...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 27.09.2021 “…Remember those Afghans who hanged on the wheel of the US plane? Niyamaddins. Elzamins, Agils, all are in prison because they do not want you to do the same!...” Post-conflict situation. FB community, political and civil society leaders, citizens commemorate 44 day war and its martyrs. They honour national army and those who died or left handicapped  as a result of the war. While many praise  the victory, which brought back refugees to their homeland, restored self - confidence of the nation, they regret that national unity was not used to make changes...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 06.05.2021 “… Bayram together with Giyas wrote the history and proved he was not a slave...” The activists, journalists and bloggers are shocked by and mourn mysterious death in Turkey of the famous young activist, the former-graffiti-prisoner Bayram Mammadov, and demand fair investigation from the police in Istanbul, welcome restoration of Shahla Humbatova and other two lawyers in the Azerbaijan Bar Association, appeal to a president for a new amnesty decree in regards remaining dozens of political prisoners, decry the dispersal of the students...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 20.08.2020 FB community continue to follow, share, show solidarity and comment on the events in Belarus, analysing domestic tactics of protesters, reaction of the Western actors, first of all the EU, announcement Lukashenka “persona non-grata”: comparing and extrapolating them to Azerbaijan, and discuss whether Russia will help Lukashenka. They greet release upon 4 years term completion of Fuad Ahmadli of PFP, among others, but decry arrest of the other activists. They also condemn poisoning of Alexei Navalny, share news of arrest of the young writer Karamat  Boyukchol...


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