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The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group state that tensions on the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan have increased in recent days as a result of violation of the ceasefire from the Azerbaijani side.
Read more “Tensions in Karabakh increased due to the attack of Azerbaijan”
AUSTIN, Tex.—The Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed House Resolution 191, titled “Recognizing the Armenian Genocide,” on May 19, thus making The Lone Star State the 46th state in the U.S. to officially classify and commemorate the 1915-1923 annihilation of Ottoman Turkey’s indigenous Armenian community as genocide.
Read more “Texas Recognizes the Armenian Genocide; Becomes 46th State to Acknowledge the Crime”
Continuing the series of articles we published in the last two weeks about corruption in Azerbaijan, we wish now to reveal additional scandalous details about funds deposited in a Malta bank by family members of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
Read more “Malta Bank Employee Reveals Documents Linking Aliyevs to Bank Accounts”
As the expert stated:
If the Armenians do not make the right decision in the near future, most likely, Azerbaijan will have to use force and restore territorial integrity. This was stated by Echo.az independent military expert Uzeir Jafarov.
Read more “Azerbaijan once again confirmed military intentions”
Vefa Mammadova, the wife of one of Azerbaijan’s leading opposition politicians, Ilgar Mammadov, spoke today at a Council of Europe assembly and asked those in attendance why Azerbaijan, after all these years, is still a member of the organization. You can read her and watch her address below.
Ilgar Mammadov was arrested in February of 2013 for alleged ‘hooliganism’ and ‘bribe giving’. The charges were later changed to the ‘organization of mass riots accompanied by riots and pogroms.’
Amnesty International is calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to ensure a prompt, independent and effective investigation into the deaths of Mahir Mustafayev and Mehman Galandarov.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on May 4 that the Azerbaijani government had violated the right to life of Mahir Mustafayev without protecting his life and without conducting an effective investigation into the circumstances of his death.
Mustafayev died of severe burns as a result of a mysterious fire in his cell in December 2006.
Read more “Amnesty International: Azerbaijan Must Investigate Recent Prison ‘Suicide’”
Exactly one year ago today, two young Azerbaijani men, Bayram Mammadov and Qiyas Ibrahimov, wrote anti-government slogans on a monument to Heydar Aliyev in Baku. The next day, they were arrested, accused of drug distribution and possession and sentenced to 10 years.
Meydan TV tells the story of these “monument prisoners”.
Read more “10 Years for Graffiti: Prisoners of Conscience in Azerbaijan”
The Sabail District Court of Baku completed the examination of a lawsuit filed by the Ministry of Communications on May 12, which demanded that access to a number of news sites in Azerbaijan be permanently blocked.
The court has agreed with the appeal and given permission to block azadlıq.info, azadlıq.org, azərbaycansaatı.com, meydan.tv, Turan TV channel (Turan TV) and Azərbaycan Saatı.
Read more “Azerbaijani Court Blocks Access to 5 Sites, Including Meydan TV”
The “dramatic theater” of one country continues. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has posted an updated “black list” of undesirable people. Here is a link to it (http://www.mfa.gov.az/files/file/Yenilenmis_08.05.2017.pdf). As blogger Anton Nosik writes:
Russian national of Armenian descent Marat Ueldanov, who was convicted in Azerbaijan, fears that he is hindered from appealing the court judgment.
His sister, Mariana Mirzoyan, told Armenian News – NEWS.am that Marat called her on Wednesday and informed that he was moved to a terrible place at 12:00 pm on Friday.
Read more “Marat Ueldanov convicted in Baku fears he is hindered from appealing court judgment”