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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CALLS ON BAKU TO END CAMPAIGN AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL AUTHOR
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23250/human-rights-watch-calls-on-baku-to-end-campaign-against-controversial-author.html
12:46, February 12, 2013
Human Rights Watch has called on the Azerbaijan government to end
its campaign of intimidation against Akram Aylisli, who has written
a controversial book regarding relations between Armenians and
Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan.
Aylisli, a member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, is the
author of Stone Dreams. The novel includes a account of violence by
ethnic Azeris against Armenians during the 1920s, and at the end of
the Soviet era, when the two countries engaged in armed conflict.
"Azerbaijan's authorities should immediately investigate and hold
accountable anyone responsible for making threats against Aylisli,
and ensure his personal safety," stated Hugh Williamson, Europe
and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch in a statement the
organization released today.
Aylisli told Human Rights Watch that he saw the novel as an appeal
for friendship between the two nations. The novel was published in
Friendship of Peoples, a Russian literary journal, in December 2012.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/23250/human-rights-watch-calls-on-baku-to-end-campaign-against-controversial-author.html
12:46, February 12, 2013
Human Rights Watch has called on the Azerbaijan government to end
its campaign of intimidation against Akram Aylisli, who has written
a controversial book regarding relations between Armenians and
Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan.
Aylisli, a member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, is the
author of Stone Dreams. The novel includes a account of violence by
ethnic Azeris against Armenians during the 1920s, and at the end of
the Soviet era, when the two countries engaged in armed conflict.
"Azerbaijan's authorities should immediately investigate and hold
accountable anyone responsible for making threats against Aylisli,
and ensure his personal safety," stated Hugh Williamson, Europe
and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch in a statement the
organization released today.
Aylisli told Human Rights Watch that he saw the novel as an appeal
for friendship between the two nations. The novel was published in
Friendship of Peoples, a Russian literary journal, in December 2012.