Rights groups urge more pressure on Azeri gov’t
International and Azerbaijani human rights groups have issued a
joint appeal to the Council of Europe to take decisive measures to
improve the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, Radio Liberty
reported.
The appeal calls on the council to push the Azerbaijani leadership to conduct crucial judicial reforms in order to ensure the independence of the judiciary and to remind the Azerbaijani government about its international obligations in the sphere of human rights.
The appeal was signed by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Article 19, the Rafto Foundation, and a number of other regional watchdogs.
The rights groups also urge the Council of Europe to encourage the Azerbaijani government to drop all charges against activists and journalists jailed for political reasons, including bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The two young men were sentenced in November to 2 and 2 and 1/2 years in prison, respectively, for hooliganism and inflicting minor bodily harm after being arrested in a scuffle at a restaurant in July 2009. *
The appeal calls on the council to push the Azerbaijani leadership to conduct crucial judicial reforms in order to ensure the independence of the judiciary and to remind the Azerbaijani government about its international obligations in the sphere of human rights.
The appeal was signed by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Article 19, the Rafto Foundation, and a number of other regional watchdogs.
The rights groups also urge the Council of Europe to encourage the Azerbaijani government to drop all charges against activists and journalists jailed for political reasons, including bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The two young men were sentenced in November to 2 and 2 and 1/2 years in prison, respectively, for hooliganism and inflicting minor bodily harm after being arrested in a scuffle at a restaurant in July 2009. *
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