FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 01.07.2021 “…The gas price has risen, so will transport and electricity: everything will rise, even your blood pressure, but never your living standards…” The FB community is increasingly concerned at Russia’s ‘peacekeeping’ activities, deeply shocked by the gas and electricity price rise, discusses revelations in the corruption scandal of the infamous “Azerbaijani couple” in the UK, shows alarm at the increase of drugs consumption in the country, is worried about safety of activists in exile in Europe and decries the unresolved social issues of the war heroes....


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Azerbaijan is a black, deep, bottomless well that silently swallows and exploits us, and destroys our life, happiness, dreams, hopes, and future.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The trial of Alizamin Salayev, the chairman of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Part (APFP) Salyan district branch, who has been on hunger strike for more than 100 days, has been held. Salayev was brought to the court by ambulance as he was not able to move. Despite numerous calls from local and international human rights defenders to release Salayev, the court...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “In a country where the opposition is not allowed to enter the parliament, if an independent MP who supports the government is brought before the Disciplinary Commission of the parliament for his light criticism, this already indicates the beginning of the establishment totalitarianism in the country...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Member of Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) Alizamin Salyev, who has been on hunger strike for the past 80 days, has entered into a state of coma, said his lawyer. Salayev is protesting against...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Azerbaijani authorities use all means such as blackmailing, bribe and assault to silence its critics abroad.”                                                                                                          (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev has been on hunger strike for 48 days. Some journalists consider it the longest hunger strike in the political history of Azerbaijan. Despite continues calls from local and international human rights organziations...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “I continue to believe Azerbaijan’s future should be in the community of democracies, but the detention of political prisoners, such as activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, undermines that path…”                                                                                      (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev has been on hunger strike for more than 40 days in protest against his illegal imprisonment. Despite the appeals of many local and international human rights...


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