FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 17.09.2020 Tofig Yagublu: “I am dying…. I dedicate this struggle to Mammad Emin Rasulzade..” The FB community continues to keep the issue of political prisoner Tofig Yagublu, who has been 16 days on hunger strike in the centre of attention. The campaign in his defence, is widening and is joined by prominent personalities of arts and culture, such as a writer Rustam Ibrahimbekov and member of  UNESCO Artists Association  Ashraf Heybatov. Activists continue to commemorate the day of liberation of Azerbaijan from Bolshevik- Dashnak forces by the Turkish Army in 1918,...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 20.07.2020 The resumption of fighting on the state border, the rally in support of the army, the detentions at the rally, official policies in regards pandemic continue to be in the center of attention. The other issues included public rallies in Khabarovsk, Russia, the exchange of war rhetoric between diplomats of Armenia and Azerbaijan and position of Serbia. The FB users report detentions at the rally devoted to the support to the army 14-15, Gunel Movlud stresses that detention for three days of the animal rights defender Elvin Jabizade is totally unclear and absurd....


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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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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 18.05.2020  The FB users continue to share and discuss the video of the closed meeting of the National Council, an interview of the co-rapporteur of the PACE on Azerbaijan Stephan Schennach to the Voice of America, the relations within the opposition camp, persecution of the activists, reaction to it by the REAL’s  chair, arrests and corruption scandals of the bureaucrats, the state aid for unemployed, Pashinian’s anti-Rasulzade speech in Armenia and “elections” in Karabagh, the horrifying story of the family in the refugee camp, protests in Moscow at the God Nisanov’s...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The beating and killing of citizens in police stations and departments has become commonplace...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms In the past few days, new disturbing cases of police brutality and torture were reported by the families of victims. Sumgayıt resident Elvin Iskandarov died at the police station. Family members claim that he was in fact tortured to death. The 37-year-old Elvin Iskandarov was taken to the police station late at night on June 14 along with several people, including his brothers. During the night of June 15, relatives who came...


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