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CIVIC SOLIDARITY CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN
19:10 12/11/2014 >> POLITICS
The Civic Solidarity Platform, a coalition of 65 human rights
organisations from the OSCE region, issued a statement in which
it called on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop the harassment of
independent media and human rights defenders.
According to the statement, Azerbaijan's six-month chairmanship of the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Europe's top human
rights body, comes to an end this week. During this period Azerbaijan
unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society--including
the imprisonment of human rights defenders and political activists
who criticized the government.
"The chairmanship turned into a demonstration of strength for the
Azerbaijani government. It showed that evil can be stronger than
values. The government used the chairmanship in an organization
which is based on human rights to prove to its citizens, and to the
world, that money and power trump values," said Azeri investigative
journalist, Khadija Ismayilova.
According to the statement, the Secretary General of the Council
of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, and its democratic member states must
confront Azerbaijan and consider punitive measures in response to this
crackdown. To date the Council of Europe has responded with nothing
more than statements of condemnation. Azerbaijan actions are an attack
to European institutions and values, and this must not go unnoticed.
The article notes the names of human rights activist Leyla Yunus,
a journalist and human rights activist Rasul Jafarov, lawyer Intigam
Alliev.
Source: Panorama.am
From: A. Papazian
19:10 12/11/2014 >> POLITICS
The Civic Solidarity Platform, a coalition of 65 human rights
organisations from the OSCE region, issued a statement in which
it called on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop the harassment of
independent media and human rights defenders.
According to the statement, Azerbaijan's six-month chairmanship of the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Europe's top human
rights body, comes to an end this week. During this period Azerbaijan
unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society--including
the imprisonment of human rights defenders and political activists
who criticized the government.
"The chairmanship turned into a demonstration of strength for the
Azerbaijani government. It showed that evil can be stronger than
values. The government used the chairmanship in an organization
which is based on human rights to prove to its citizens, and to the
world, that money and power trump values," said Azeri investigative
journalist, Khadija Ismayilova.
According to the statement, the Secretary General of the Council
of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, and its democratic member states must
confront Azerbaijan and consider punitive measures in response to this
crackdown. To date the Council of Europe has responded with nothing
more than statements of condemnation. Azerbaijan actions are an attack
to European institutions and values, and this must not go unnoticed.
The article notes the names of human rights activist Leyla Yunus,
a journalist and human rights activist Rasul Jafarov, lawyer Intigam
Alliev.
Source: Panorama.am
From: A. Papazian