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"ZERKALO": PACE MEMBERS WHO REJECTED REPORT ON POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR NEW ARRESTS IN BAKU
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/02/06/ismailli/
16:50 06/02/2013 " SOCIETY
"REAL" movement is going to put forward Ilgar Mamedov's candidacy for
president. Ilgar Mamedov was arrested on Monday in Azerbaijan. The
authorities of Azerbaijan accuse him of organizing a rebellion in
Ismailli region, the Azerbaijani paper "Zerkalo" reports.
"That is to say, we already have a potential presidential candidate
who is a political prisoner," the article reads.
The article reminds that Nasimi District Court of Baku implemented
preventive punishment against Tofig Yagublu, Deputy Chairman of
oppositional "Musavat" party, and Ilgar Mamedov, the chairman of
the civil movement "REAL" Ilgar Mamedov, putting them under arrest
for 2 months. They are accused of organizing riots in the district
and resisting the police. If it is proved that they are guilty they
will face a sentence of 7 years. Yagublu and Mamedov deny the charges
against them. According to the lawyers, the decision of the arrest
will be appealed in the Court of Appeal.
Mamedov as a director of the Baku School of Political Studies of the
Council of Europe is in fact, the staff member of this international
organization. This fact inevitably will lead Mamedov's case into
huge international resonance. Never before were instituted criminal
proceedings against the representatives of influential international
organization in Azerbaijan.
Author of the article Rauf Mirkadirov notes that he personally
knows Ilgar Mamedov for about 20 years. With his assistance and at
the invitation of the Council of Europe I even gave a lecture to the
graduates of the School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe
at the final session, in Strasbourg. To think that Mamedov called
on for rioting, smashing hotel which belongs to the family of the
minister is a pure fiction," the article reads.
"Today, we are talking about the arrest of a political and social
activist who was "dear" to the Council of Europe. And here is the
result of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe which
decided "not to irritate Baku" about the problem concerning the
political prisoners. They began to "produce" new ones, at once, "on
the spot" just as soon as they got the "approval" of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe," the article says.
The author notes that now he agrees with the statements concerning the
"decline of Europe", as far as PACE dared not to "annoy" Azerbaijani
authorities by the request of the Azerbaijani human rights activist
Eynulla Fatullayev and didn't accept Christoph Strasser's report on
political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
"I think that PACE MPs who voted against the resolution of Christoph
Strasser are to carry at least moral and political responsibility for
the new arrests that occur today, including Ilgar Mamedov's who was
popularizing values of the Council of Europe in Azerbaijan and who
appeared behind the bars. By the way, a question arises: can we at
once declare Ilgar Mamedov as political prisoner and a "prisoner of
conscience", as we did once with Fatullayev, or have we to wait for
the judicial process? In the meantime, let him stay behind the bars,
at least for several months, before the trial?" Zerkalo writes.
On January 23 PACE didn't admit the report didn't adopt the report
of the German MP Christoph Strasser on "The follow-up to the issue of
political prisoners in Azerbaijan." There were names of 85 political
prisoners in the report who were imprisoned in Azerbaijan, a third
of them were already released.
Unrests in Ismailli district began at the evening of January 23,
after an accident in which the nephew of the head of Nizami Alekperov
and son of the Minister of Labor Fizuli Alekperov - Vugar Alekperov
- were involved. As a result a revolt arose; the participants set
to fire commercial entities belonging to officials. Special Forces
and internal troops entered the district. They used rubber bullets
and tear gas against the rebels. There were dozens of arrested and
injured in the result of clashes.
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2013/02/06/ismailli/
16:50 06/02/2013 " SOCIETY
"REAL" movement is going to put forward Ilgar Mamedov's candidacy for
president. Ilgar Mamedov was arrested on Monday in Azerbaijan. The
authorities of Azerbaijan accuse him of organizing a rebellion in
Ismailli region, the Azerbaijani paper "Zerkalo" reports.
"That is to say, we already have a potential presidential candidate
who is a political prisoner," the article reads.
The article reminds that Nasimi District Court of Baku implemented
preventive punishment against Tofig Yagublu, Deputy Chairman of
oppositional "Musavat" party, and Ilgar Mamedov, the chairman of
the civil movement "REAL" Ilgar Mamedov, putting them under arrest
for 2 months. They are accused of organizing riots in the district
and resisting the police. If it is proved that they are guilty they
will face a sentence of 7 years. Yagublu and Mamedov deny the charges
against them. According to the lawyers, the decision of the arrest
will be appealed in the Court of Appeal.
Mamedov as a director of the Baku School of Political Studies of the
Council of Europe is in fact, the staff member of this international
organization. This fact inevitably will lead Mamedov's case into
huge international resonance. Never before were instituted criminal
proceedings against the representatives of influential international
organization in Azerbaijan.
Author of the article Rauf Mirkadirov notes that he personally
knows Ilgar Mamedov for about 20 years. With his assistance and at
the invitation of the Council of Europe I even gave a lecture to the
graduates of the School of Political Studies of the Council of Europe
at the final session, in Strasbourg. To think that Mamedov called
on for rioting, smashing hotel which belongs to the family of the
minister is a pure fiction," the article reads.
"Today, we are talking about the arrest of a political and social
activist who was "dear" to the Council of Europe. And here is the
result of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe which
decided "not to irritate Baku" about the problem concerning the
political prisoners. They began to "produce" new ones, at once, "on
the spot" just as soon as they got the "approval" of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe," the article says.
The author notes that now he agrees with the statements concerning the
"decline of Europe", as far as PACE dared not to "annoy" Azerbaijani
authorities by the request of the Azerbaijani human rights activist
Eynulla Fatullayev and didn't accept Christoph Strasser's report on
political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
"I think that PACE MPs who voted against the resolution of Christoph
Strasser are to carry at least moral and political responsibility for
the new arrests that occur today, including Ilgar Mamedov's who was
popularizing values of the Council of Europe in Azerbaijan and who
appeared behind the bars. By the way, a question arises: can we at
once declare Ilgar Mamedov as political prisoner and a "prisoner of
conscience", as we did once with Fatullayev, or have we to wait for
the judicial process? In the meantime, let him stay behind the bars,
at least for several months, before the trial?" Zerkalo writes.
On January 23 PACE didn't admit the report didn't adopt the report
of the German MP Christoph Strasser on "The follow-up to the issue of
political prisoners in Azerbaijan." There were names of 85 political
prisoners in the report who were imprisoned in Azerbaijan, a third
of them were already released.
Unrests in Ismailli district began at the evening of January 23,
after an accident in which the nephew of the head of Nizami Alekperov
and son of the Minister of Labor Fizuli Alekperov - Vugar Alekperov
- were involved. As a result a revolt arose; the participants set
to fire commercial entities belonging to officials. Special Forces
and internal troops entered the district. They used rubber bullets
and tear gas against the rebels. There were dozens of arrested and
injured in the result of clashes.