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Council of Europe urges Azerbaijan to clear criminal records of activists and opposition figures
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Council of Europe urges Azerbaijan to clear criminal records of activists and opposition figures

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The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has urged the government of Azerbaijan to abide by its obligations and remove all restrictions on ReAl party leader Ilgar Mammadov and seven others who were determined to be falsely imprisoned.  The committee, which monitors the implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings, delivered the comments on 25 September while reviewing the performance of the Azerbaijani government. Along with Mammadov’s case, the committee was crit

ECHR rules jailing of Azerbaijani rights lawyer ‘politically motivated’
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ECHR rules jailing of Azerbaijani rights lawyer ‘politically motivated’

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Azerbaijan’s arrest and conviction of Intigam Aliyev were politically motivated, aimed to ‘silence and to punish’ him for his human rights work. The Azerbaijani human rights lawyer was a loud critic of the authorities accusing them of cracking down on independent lawyers in Azerbaijan and using repressive tactics during 2010 parliamentary elections. Aliyev, the founder of Azerbaijan’s Legal Education Society, was detained b

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