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Date: 22 May 2019Arsenal leaves out Mkhitaryan from Europa League final amid safety concernsArmenian national Henrikh Mkhitaryan has chosen together with Arsenal not to attend the final match of the Europa League to be held in Baku, CNN reports.
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Date: 17 May 2019What will people say? Parents disown their LGBT children in fear of public opinionIt is impossible to find out even approximately how many people there are in the LGBT community in Azerbaijan because most of them thoroughly hide their sexual orientation. In Azerbaijan, which has been named Europe's most ...
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Date: 15 May 2019Aliyev and Pashinyan meet briefly in BrusselsAzerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had a brief meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the summit dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Eastern Partnership held in Brussels on Tuesday.
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Date: 14 May 2019Baku: UK Foreign Office warning of terror attacks in Azerbaijan ‘not understandable’The Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the UK Foreign Office statement warning its citizens of possible terror attacks in their trip to the post-Soviet country is “not understandable".
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Date: 8 May 2019Azerbaijan lifts travel ban on journalistsAzerbaijan has reversed its decision to ban journalists from leaving the country while the investigation launched against Meydan TV is still ongoing, the General Prosecutor Office of Grave Crimes Investigation Department stated on 7 May.
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Date: 2 May 2019Muslim Unity Movement member in Turkey to be extradited to BakuAzerbaijani citizen Elnur Mehdiyev, who has allegedly been affiliated with the Muslim Unity Movement, is supposed to be extradited from Turkey to Baku at the request of the Azerbaijani government, according to Mehdiyev’s family.
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Date: 30 April 2019The March Pardon and #FreeThemAllWhat impact have public campaigns had toward the release of a record number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan?
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Date: 25 April 2019Azerbaijan due to sign partnership agreement with EU in MayAn agreement between Azerbaijan and the European Union is expected to be signed in May, Ogtay Asadov, the speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, reported on April 23.
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Date: 18 April 2019Azerbaijani Media Remains in a 'Very Serious Situation'Once again, Azerbaijan has been ranked 166 in the Reporters without Borders yearly World Press Freedom Index.
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Date: 17 April 2019Yet another rapper arrested in Azerbaijan for ‘promoting drug use’Rapper Aydin Huseynov has been detained and sentenced to 30-day administrative detention by the Sumgayit City Court over charges of “encouraging drug use" in his lyrics.