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COE SECRETARY GENERAL CALLS FOR "IMMEDIATE RELEASE" OF AZERBAIJANI JOURNALIST
Tuesday 9 December 2014 18:42
Photo: http://www.dn.no/
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn
Jagland called for "immediate release" of Azerbaijani journalist
Khadija Ismayilova today.
"I am concerned that a Baku court ordered the two-month pre-trial
detention of prominent Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija
Ismayilova.
Her arrest was unnecessary. It sends a very negative message to the
civil society in Azerbaijan and to the international community.
It once again puts pressure on journalists and human rights defenders
in Azerbaijan and fundamentally contradicts the commitments Azerbaijan
undertook when it became a member state of the Council of Europe.
I call for the immediate release of Khadija Ismayilova and of the
many other Azerbaijani partners of the Council of Europe currently
deprived of their liberty", said Thorbjorn Jagland.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/12534/
From: A. Papazian
Tuesday 9 December 2014 18:42
Photo: http://www.dn.no/
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn
Jagland called for "immediate release" of Azerbaijani journalist
Khadija Ismayilova today.
"I am concerned that a Baku court ordered the two-month pre-trial
detention of prominent Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija
Ismayilova.
Her arrest was unnecessary. It sends a very negative message to the
civil society in Azerbaijan and to the international community.
It once again puts pressure on journalists and human rights defenders
in Azerbaijan and fundamentally contradicts the commitments Azerbaijan
undertook when it became a member state of the Council of Europe.
I call for the immediate release of Khadija Ismayilova and of the
many other Azerbaijani partners of the Council of Europe currently
deprived of their liberty", said Thorbjorn Jagland.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/12534/
From: A. Papazian