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RUSSIAN PEN-CENTER DEMANDS ALIYEV TO STOP PERSECUTION OF WRITER AKRAM AYLISLI
20:29, 12 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRES: An international organization
protecting the rights of writers, the Russian PEN-Centre, published
an open letter to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, to stop
the persecution of the disgraced writer Akram Aylisli, Armenpress,
reports referring to contact.az.
The authors of the letter believe that, "thoughts and opinions
expressed in his novel requiem" Stone Dreams" cannot be used as a
pretext to persecute the writer."
The Executive Committee of the Russian PEN-Centre notes that "literary
and ethical issues must be addressed in a legal and literary field,
and not by administrative methods, such as depriving the writer of
awards and titles, etc."
Letters in support of the Azerbaijani writer and chief editor of
the magazine "Friendship of Peoples", Alexander Ebanoidze, and the
writers Boris Akunin and Andrey Bitov were also published.
On February 7 Aliyev signed an order to deprive Akram Aylisli of
the title "People's Writer." A seventy-five-year-old writer was also
deprived of his state pension.
The novel "Stone Dreams", describes attacks on Armenians in Baku in
December 1989, has caused a wide resonance in Azerbaijan. The writer
is accused of bias in the presentation of historical facts. Recently
there have been calls for violence against Aylisli.
20:29, 12 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRES: An international organization
protecting the rights of writers, the Russian PEN-Centre, published
an open letter to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, to stop
the persecution of the disgraced writer Akram Aylisli, Armenpress,
reports referring to contact.az.
The authors of the letter believe that, "thoughts and opinions
expressed in his novel requiem" Stone Dreams" cannot be used as a
pretext to persecute the writer."
The Executive Committee of the Russian PEN-Centre notes that "literary
and ethical issues must be addressed in a legal and literary field,
and not by administrative methods, such as depriving the writer of
awards and titles, etc."
Letters in support of the Azerbaijani writer and chief editor of
the magazine "Friendship of Peoples", Alexander Ebanoidze, and the
writers Boris Akunin and Andrey Bitov were also published.
On February 7 Aliyev signed an order to deprive Akram Aylisli of
the title "People's Writer." A seventy-five-year-old writer was also
deprived of his state pension.
The novel "Stone Dreams", describes attacks on Armenians in Baku in
December 1989, has caused a wide resonance in Azerbaijan. The writer
is accused of bias in the presentation of historical facts. Recently
there have been calls for violence against Aylisli.