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AZERI CIVIL ACTIVIST SAYS PACE CO-RAPPORTEURS ON AZERBAIJAN CORRUPT
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 13, 2012 - 21:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Co-rapporteurs of Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan Pedro
Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC) are
reluctant to acknowledge human rights violations in Azerbaijan,
human rights advocate, director of Azeri Institute for Peace and
Democracy said.
Leyla Yunus says the rapporteurs pursue personal goals, after being
bribed by Azerbaijani government. She cited preliminary report on the
situation in Azerbaijan, and meeting with rapporteurs as grounds for
her allegations.
According to Yunus, the OSCE representatives have ignored all of the
materials on human rights violations in Azerbaijan, preferring to
exclude them from their preliminary report.
"The document seems to have been written in Azeri presidential
administration. In particular, the facts of death from torture in
prison of the National Security Ministry of Nakhchivan Turac Zeynalov,
torture of Nakhchivan's activist Zeynal Bagirzade, and tortures of
two journalists of the "Khayal" TV channel have not been included the
report. The detainment of journalists Avaz Zeynalli and Anar Bayramli,
beatings and harassment of Idrak Abbasov and Khadija Ismailova were
not included in the report, either," Yunus said.
Yunus said that an appeal on lack of confidence in rapporteurs
has been filed to PACE on behalf of 20 civil society activists,
contact.az reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 13, 2012 - 21:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Co-rapporteurs of Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan Pedro
Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC) are
reluctant to acknowledge human rights violations in Azerbaijan,
human rights advocate, director of Azeri Institute for Peace and
Democracy said.
Leyla Yunus says the rapporteurs pursue personal goals, after being
bribed by Azerbaijani government. She cited preliminary report on the
situation in Azerbaijan, and meeting with rapporteurs as grounds for
her allegations.
According to Yunus, the OSCE representatives have ignored all of the
materials on human rights violations in Azerbaijan, preferring to
exclude them from their preliminary report.
"The document seems to have been written in Azeri presidential
administration. In particular, the facts of death from torture in
prison of the National Security Ministry of Nakhchivan Turac Zeynalov,
torture of Nakhchivan's activist Zeynal Bagirzade, and tortures of
two journalists of the "Khayal" TV channel have not been included the
report. The detainment of journalists Avaz Zeynalli and Anar Bayramli,
beatings and harassment of Idrak Abbasov and Khadija Ismailova were
not included in the report, either," Yunus said.
Yunus said that an appeal on lack of confidence in rapporteurs
has been filed to PACE on behalf of 20 civil society activists,
contact.az reported.