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Date: 22 October 2019Protests and violent crackdowns over weekend in BakuPolice in Baku have beaten and detained opposition politicians along with protesters in an attempt to disperse a demonstration held against corruption and the lack of democracy in the country.
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Date: 16 October 2019Erdogan calls for Turkic states to support Syrian OperationPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for Turkic-speaking countries to stand by Turkey in its fight against what the Turkish head of state has labeled "terrorism", as Ankara pushes ahead its military campaign against Kurdish fighters ...
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Date: 9 October 2019Trans* graffiti removed in BakuA graffiti piece depicting a trans* woman and painted as part of an art festival recently held in the capital city of Baku, has been removed days after it was decried as unwanted.
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Date: 1 October 2019Four released in "Ganja case"Another four sentenced to five to 15 years
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Date: 30 September 2019Supreme Court sends Meydan TV case back to lower courtThe case has been sent back to the Court of Appeals.
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Date: 27 September 2019Afgan Mukhtarli ends hunger strike in Baku prisonImprisoned investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli has ended his hunger strike after three days.
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Date: 20 September 2019Freedom House: Safety of Journalists in Freefall in AzerbaijanFreedom House has stated that it is “gravely concerned” about the increasing number of attacks and intimidation on journalists in several OSCE members, including in Azerbaijan.
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Date: 18 September 2019Azerbaijan’s unemployment its highest in twenty yearsLocal employment offices have registered 71,000 unemployed as of September 1, Turan news agency reports in reference to the State Statistical Committee.
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Date: 13 September 2019Ganja prisoners on hunger strikeEight of those arrested over the Ganja events - Bakram Aliyev, Habib Gurbanov, Elmir Huseynzade, Vugar Yusifov, Shahin Verdiyev, Emil Mammadov, Mirza Huseynov and Asif Javadov - said at their trial on 6 September that they ...
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Date: 10 September 2019PACE rapporteur finalizes her fact-finding visit to AzerbaijanSunna Aevarsdottir, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur on ‘reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan’, has concluded her three-day fact-finding visit to the country calling the government’s attitude “constructive."