CE commissioner meets Azeri rights defenders
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas
Hammarberg, who is visiting Azerbaijan, met with rights defenders
on Monday.
According to Arzu Abdullayeva, who participated at the meeting, discussions centered on all areas of human rights, including social and political situation in the country, relations between the police and citizens, the condition of reformatory institutions, the execution of court rulings as well as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh.
Abdullayeva said the rights champions had comprehensively briefed Hammarberg about the cases of two jailed journalists - Ganimat Zahid, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Azadlig, and Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor of the Russian-language Realny Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani-language Gundalik Azerbaijan newspapers, as well as imprisoned bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli.
The CE commissioner is scheduled to leave for the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on Friday.*
According to Arzu Abdullayeva, who participated at the meeting, discussions centered on all areas of human rights, including social and political situation in the country, relations between the police and citizens, the condition of reformatory institutions, the execution of court rulings as well as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh.
Abdullayeva said the rights champions had comprehensively briefed Hammarberg about the cases of two jailed journalists - Ganimat Zahid, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Azadlig, and Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor of the Russian-language Realny Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani-language Gundalik Azerbaijan newspapers, as well as imprisoned bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli.
The CE commissioner is scheduled to leave for the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on Friday.*
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