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Azerbaijan: deputy chair of Islamic Party sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment
Today, the Sumgait City Court, chaired by Judge Zeigyam Guseinov, has finished the trial of Arif Ganiev, Deputy Chair of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA).
Azerbaijan, South Caucasus
Society, Human rights, Politics, Crime
Jan 26 2012, 21:40
NGO holds action in support of the unemployed at the parliament of Georgia
| The action "Empty Pots", organized by the NGO named "Union of Unemployed for Employment", was held near the building of parliament in Tbilisi. |
Jan 26 2012, 21:20
A broadcasting station in Azerbaijan enacted a ban on French songs
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In connection with adoption of a bill on criminalization of denial of genocide by the Senate of France, broadcasting station Media FM in Azerbaijan removed songs performed by French singers and all the songs in the French language from the air today.
South Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Armenia
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Jan 26 2012, 18:00
Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Armenia went on a hunger strike
| Convicts in "Nubarashen" prison of Yerevan went on a hunger strike. The protestors sentenced to life imprisonment for murders demand reconsideration of their criminal cases. |
Jan 25 2012, 23:10; CK correspondent
Another protest action staged in Baku at the French Embassy
| Opposition activists of the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) held a picket near the French Embassy to Azerbaijan. It was the third protest action in Baku over the past two days against the adoption by the French Senate of the bill that assumes criminalization of denial of the genocides, recognized as such by the laws of the country, including the Armenian Genocide. |
Jan 25 2012, 23:00; CK correspondent
Georgia's MIA: policemen who dispersed the rally duly punished
| The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reacted to the "World Report 2012: Georgia", published by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and dealing with the dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi on May 26, 2011, and absence of proper inquiry into the incident. Shota Utiashvili, the head of the information-analytical service of the MIA, has reported about an objective inquiry and punishment of those guilty. |
Jan 25 2012, 22:00
Georgian pilots-veterans stage protest in front of President's residence
| Today, ten former pilots have held a protest action outside the Georgian President's residence in Avlabari. |
Jan 25 2012, 18:00
Bidzina Ivanishvili appealed against denial of restoration of his Georgian citizenship
| On January, 24, attorneys of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili appealed to the Appellate court of Tbilisi in order to lodge a complaint against the judgment of the city court on the case of restoration of his Georgian citizenship. |
Jan 24 2012, 23:30; CK correspondent
HRW: human rights situation in Azerbaijan becomes worse
| In 2011, the human rights situation in Azerbaijan deteriorated; the government suppressed all forms of protest. This was announced by the annual report on human rights situation in the world, prepared by the International human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), which was released on January 22. |
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Jan 24 2012, 22:20
Baku hosts protest in front of French Embassy
| Today, about 50 persons came to the Embassy of France in Baku to protest against adoption by the French Senate - the upper house of the parliament - of the bill assuming punishment for negation of the genocides regarded as such by the law. |
