This week scandal around the fortune of the UK resident Zamira Hajiyeva (55), who is wanted in Azerbaijan regarded as a beneficiary of her husband’s fraudulent banking operations, launches an anti-corruption campaign of the British government. While carrying out the first offensive on “unexplained” wealth” the UK specialized body the National Crime Agency led by Donald Toon has prepared eight other…
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“Endemic” police torture in Azerbaijan
Torture in Azerbaijan by police and other law enforcement agencies is “systemic and endemic,” according to a report from the Council of Europe’s torture prevention body. #CoE #Anti-torture Committee (#CPT) publishes reports on #Azerbaijan which show #torture, #impunity and #corruption endemic, but CPT considers Azerbaijani authorities’ decision to publish indicates resolve to address these problems @coe…
EU-Azerbaijan: “attempts of blackmail will not succeed”
At July Plenary in Strasbourg MEPs recommended a list of conditions for a new EU-Azerbaijan agreement, underlining that the future deal must be ambitious and deliver concrete benefits; it has also to ensure respect to fundamental rights and freedoms; and must guarantee defeating corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. Press release: MEPs list conditions for…
Aliyev won a new seven-year term
Exit polls suggested Aliyev, who ran for the ruling New Azerbaijan party, will secure a fourth consecutive term in office with over 80% of the vote in the April 11 election, which Human Rights Watch (HRW) said did not provide “a viable choice” for the voters. https://twitter.com/dailyGSI/status/984053487402176514 Aliyev received 82.7 percent of the vote, a…
Azeri journalist attempted assassination in France
A journalist from Azerbaijan, refugee in Toulouse (France) with his family since 2010, was targeted Friday (30.03.2018) morning around 9:00 by gunfire in Colomiers, a neighbourhood bordering Toulouse. Rahim Namazov was accompanied by his wife who was shot and died instantly. The couple was driving when he was shot at seven times. The journalist was…
Baku’ assaults regime critics
The courts of Azerbaijan condemned at least 25 journalists and political activists to long prison terms in politically motivated, unfair trials in 2017, Human Rights Watch concluded in its World Report 2018. https://twitter.com/steveswerdlow/status/954279619322171392 Azerbaijan laws and regulations for nongovernmental organizations created a frame, making impossible for independent groups to fund and carry out their work. Harassment,…
EU urges Baku to respect freedom of speech
“The six-year sentence handed down to Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli in Azerbaijan by a court in Balakan on 12 January poses serious questions as regards the exercise of fundamental rights including the freedom of expression and media and due process of law in Azerbaijan, ” – says the statement by the spokesperson of the European External…
MEPs condemn ‘Azerbaijan’s Laundromat’
The recent ‘Azerbaijani Laundromat’ revelations should be investigated and the ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions list adopted by the EU, urged MEPs during September Plenary in Strasbourg. The Azerbaijani #Laundromat explained. Full story here: https://t.co/hWCYXjQaoB pic.twitter.com/F5VCXxsYd9 — Transparency International (@anticorruption) September 6, 2017 “With Lux Leaks, Panama Leaks, Russia and Azerbaijan Laundromats, we realise that corruption stretches far…
MEPs call Azerbaijan to release political prisoners
The European Parliament calls upon Azerbaijan authorities to immediately release and drop all charges against Afgan Mukhtarli (pictured), an investigative journalist exiled in Georgia, from where he was abducted on May 29 and brought to Azerbaijan. He now faces prosecution and possibly a prison sentence of several years “following bogus charges”, say MEPs. Azerbaijani authorities…
EU on Azerbaijan’s abduction of a journalist
“The alleged abduction and illegal arbitrary detention of Azerbaijani nationals, including human rights defenders, residing in Georgia followed by their arrest and prosecution in Azerbaijan, demands swift, thorough and transparent investigation.” – says the statement of the European External Actions Service. Statement on reported abduction & illegal detention of #Azerbaijan nationals residing in #Georgia https://t.co/HTwAw5TnEt…
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