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    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CALLS ON BAKU TO END CAMPAIGN AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL AUTHOR

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/23250/human-rights-watch-calls-on-baku-to-end-campaign-against-controversial-author.html
    12:46, February 12, 2013

    Human Rights Watch has called on the Azerbaijan government to end
    its campaign of intimidation against Akram Aylisli, who has written
    a controversial book regarding relations between Armenians and
    Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan.

    Aylisli, a member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, is the
    author of Stone Dreams. The novel includes a account of violence by
    ethnic Azeris against Armenians during the 1920s, and at the end of
    the Soviet era, when the two countries engaged in armed conflict.

    "Azerbaijan's authorities should immediately investigate and hold
    accountable anyone responsible for making threats against Aylisli,
    and ensure his personal safety," stated Hugh Williamson, Europe
    and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch in a statement the
    organization released today.

    Aylisli told Human Rights Watch that he saw the novel as an appeal
    for friendship between the two nations. The novel was published in
    Friendship of Peoples, a Russian literary journal, in December 2012.

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