FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The election of a fake MP from a strict authoritarian regime like Azerbaijan to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the position responsible for human rights is not only a spitting on human rights and democracy but also an indication of how weak the West has become in the current geopolitical war...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties The US State Department has released its annual reports on Human rights practices. According to the report, in Azerbaijan, the state of human rights and liberties worsened, and the government...


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    FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties On August 22, activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was stopped by police officers dressed in civilian clothes while walking on the street and was forcibly taken to the Baku City Police Department. Hajiyev was released after his critical posts on Facebook were deleted. Hajiyev previously said that he was openly threatened by the police if he kept criticizing the Minister of Internal Affairs Vilayat Eyvazov. After his complaints were ignored by the Ministry, Hajiyev submitted his application for renunciation...


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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Before the war and after the victory, the citizen of Azerbaijan was nobody in the eyes of the authorities and remains so.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Elzamin Salayev, the chairman of APCP Salyan District Branch, was sentenced to administrative detention for one month. Azadliq newspaper reports that Salayev started hunger strike (he refused even drink water) in protest against this illegal arrest and the non-fulfillment of his pre-arrest demands. Veteran Khayal Abbasov served in the Special Forces of the Internal...


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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The crime committed against me is not the first crime committed by the authorities against citizens in Azerbaijan, but it must be the last...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties On Thursday night, well-known activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was abducted, tortured, videotaped, and threatened by four unidentified masked men. His Facebook posts about Internal Affairs Minster Vilayat Eyvazov were deleted. Hajiyev shared the shocking details on his Facebook post: "I was abducted by four masked persons at about 11 pm on April 21, at the intersection...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 07.06.2021 “…Our state is held captive by a group of people and its mechanism serves their enrichment and hegemony...” The FB community is shaken by the landmine explosion which killed journalists on the liberated lands, disappointed with the reaction of the West, puzzled by new facts of Shusha “conspiracy”, and discusses consequences of the coup d’etat which ousted former president Elchibey 27 years ago. It decries the release of the policeman who killed an Azerbaijani driver in Russia, demanding that official Baku react to this, attracts attention to the desperate...


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