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    FINANCIAL TIMES: THE BIGGEST SURPRISE IS THAT AZERBAIJAN REMAINS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

    Panorama.am
    23/05/2012

    Journalists, bloggers, a wide range of political activists, and
    musicians and artists too, continue to be intimidated, censored,
    imprisoned and even violently attacked in Azerbaijan, says Kirsty
    Hughes, Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, in her letter,
    published by the international business newspaper "Financial Times".

    "The biggest surprise, given Azerbaijan's record, is not perhaps that
    it has been allowed to host Eurovision but that it remains a member
    of the Council of Europe in the face of such attacks on free speech
    and its lamentable failings in establishing any genuine semblance of
    democracy," it is said in the letter.

    The UK - heading into the London Olympics - can be more confident it
    can withstand a spotlight on its own democracy and rights record. But
    Prime Minister David Cameron must think twice before welcoming
    the heads of state of such rights-abusing countries as Azerbaijan,
    Bahrain and Ukraine, notes Kirsty Hughes in her letter.

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