FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 17.08.2020 The events in Belarus occupy main space on FB.The community is trying to assess and predict developments there, actively share updates from the streets of Minsk and news from the other cities and discuss consequences for Azerbaijan. They focus on eventual mobilization of all social circles of Belarus society, including intelligentsia, who was resigning in protest from their jobs and signing appeals, foreign reaction and the leading role of women and young people. The photos with women hugging police in the street were not free from controversy, as in some...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 13.08.2020 Azerbaijani FB space has been dominated by the post-election protests  in Belarus, support and appraisal of the people’s consistent struggle defending their votes,  stress on the role of young people in these protests and perception it as a beginning of the next wave of collapse of dictatorships which will reach Azerbaijan. They continue to discuss the tortures and mistreatment of the detained after 14-15 th July rally, sharing the National Council’s statement urging more decisive international involvement. The policy on pandemic is a continuing topic,...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 03.08.2020 The topic of torture of activists and unclear fate of Fuad Gahramanli  of PFP, along with the reaction to the repressions of the foreign institutions, and of the government, extra-ordinary meeting of the Milli Majlis ( the Parliament), the statements - of the SD faction of the European Parliament, co-rapporteurs of the PACE, of the human rights defenders and civil society of the country- condemning repressions against opposition, declaring the income by the MP Erkin Gadirli, extension of quarantine – dominated the FB discussions The activists share and update...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 06.07.2020 The most popular topics are the pandemic and extended quarantine, continued arrests of the bureaucrats, situation with political prisoners and petition of their amnesty, the slander campaign, based on fake information of their “Armenian” blood  against brothers the blogger Mehman and a journalist Emin Huseynov, the violation of the quarantine rules by the elite at the Fairmont Hotel, social aid to population. The issue of political freedoms is one of the most popular topics. Ali Karimli of PFP appeals to his followers to join the petition on amnesty...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 22.06.2020 The most popular topics these days were the situation with pandemic in the country and incapacity of the health system to cope with it, incident on Russia-Azerbaijan border, corruption, persecution of activists, including detention ( and by now release)  of Bakhtiyar Hadjiyev  and extension of detention for Tofig Yagublu, intra-elite struggle – the wave of criticism against Ramiz Mehdiyev, women’s rights. The Fb users comment on incapacity of the system to cope with the challenges of pandemic, that if the government did nothing it would...


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