Showing posts with label April 2 protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label April 2 protests. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31

6 activists sentenced in Azerbaijan

According to this article published on August 25th, 6 Azerbaijani opposition activists were sentenced to various times with the highest jail term of three years for staging anti- government protests in the capital of Azerbaijan in April of this year. Among sentenced are Zulfugar Eyvazli (18 months), Babak Huseynov (18 months), Sahib Karimov (2 years), Elshan Hasanov (2 years), Elnur Israfilov (2.5 years), Arif Alishli (3 years). 

The protests organized by the Oppositional Public Chamber were dispersed and resulted in arrests of more than dozen activists. According to the article, 8 more activists are awaiting trial.

Friday, April 15

"Azerbaijan's innocence and blind international perspective on just and democratic Azerbaijan"

Ah, when will our authorities realize that the international organizations are well aware of the reality on the ground and that there is no point of making fools out of themselves? 

Take this article for instance in which, Novruz Mammadov who heads International Relations Department at the Presidential Administration, comes across very surprised when commenting on recent OSCE and EU statements with regard to April 2nd protests and brutal police crackdown. 
The statement issued by the OSCE and the EU about the 2 April rally caused me surprised and regret.
Because according to Mammadov that was a "minor event" and such a "serious" reaction was unnecessary. Mr. Innocence further criticizes those established institutions for taking "such sensitive approach" and calls them biased. So you call the treatment of people below as "minor" and not "serious":

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This is minor too?

Who are we kidding here really? Only ourselves Mr. Mammadov! Only ourselves! Its just so convenient and simple isn't it?! You lie and start living the lie yourself, loosing the border between the fake world and the real world. Well Mr. Mammadov, perhaps thats the main difference here, those institutions that you call sensitive and biased are from the real world, while you are from a planet unknown to the humankind...