Included by a member of the PACE Mr. Ch. Strasser into the list of political prisoners on Azerbaijan, the prisoners of conscience Raghib Piraliyev and Sharafaddin Mahmudov have declared that they are ready meet to any representative of the Parliamentary Assembly and prove on the facts of justice of assertions of Ch. Strasser.
“The arrests of peaceful protesters immediately after as the PACE rejected the resolution on politically motivated arrests, shows how serious the situation is,” – said John Dalusen, Director of Amnesty International office on Europe and Central Asia. “PACE co-rapporteurs are responsible for monitoring of the obligations of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe, Pedro Agramunt […]
International human rights organization Amnesty International has broken off its cooperation with human rights defender Eynulla Fatullayev and in connection with this made appropriate statement. Representative of the AI on Caucasus and Ukraine Max Taker said, that: “Some time ago Fatullayev asked an office of Amnesty International in Germany assign speaker to take part in […]
Only in Azerbaijan shops and restaurants, palaces of celebrations and hotels, saunas and beauty salons are called by their owners names, and also by names of children, grandchildren, wives and mistress. This is allowed to determine their true owners not addressing under this at Informational and analytical department of the Tax Ministry. Before fire, in […]
Below with insignificant reductions, we offer readers an article of José Ignacio Torreblanca “Caviar diplomacy from Valencia to Azerbaijan” that was published on 24.01.2013 in the Spanish daily newspaper “El Pais” circulation of which is from 400 thousand to 500 thousand copies. “Today, I want to present to the readers a rather unusual article. It […]
To attention of the readers we are presenting the results of voting in PACE January 23, 2013 on the report of the German parliamentarian Christopher Strasser on political prisoners in Azerbaijan. Recall that in the report of C. Strasser was justly noted, that in spite of efforts of the PACE, an issue on political prisoners […]
21 – 23 January 2013 the representatives of the IOLR took part in a work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. It is true, if participation is considered to be a presence in the gallery during the plenary sessions of the Assembly, listening to simultaneous interpretations and meetings in the […]
Human rights organization “Freedom House” released today the traditional report on freedom in the world in which, as in previous years, Azerbaijan is included on the list of not free countries with low levels of democracy and freedoms. “The country is ruled by “consolidated authoritarian regime.” Political and economic freedoms are at a very low […]
An American writer and author of the book “The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations” Prof. Michael L. Ross worries about possible economic consequences of the upcoming presidential election in Azerbaijan. “To make themselves more popular”, he says, governments “often spend vast amounts of money during election years, which causes their […]
“Today, the most respected people are high-ranking officials, who are tired of carry on their functions of servants of the law. They want a wider publicity, unlimited power and personal enrichment. And they made a coup. Now they do not serve the law, and they create themselves and conduct by them at their own discretion: […]
