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Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights meets rights defenders in Azerbaijan

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights meets rights defenders in Azerbaijan
# 03 September 2007 08:47 (UTC +04:00)
APA reports human rights defender Saida Gojamanli, Zaliha Tahirova and Elchin Behbudov attended the meeting. Saida Gojamanli told a briefing that the visitor mostly got interested in the state of freedom of expression, problem of political prisoners, pre-election socio-political situation, conditions of detentions, prohibition of torture and ill-treatment.
Thomas Hammarberg was presented a six-month report about facts on torture in Azerbaijan.
“All questions that interested the visitor were responded. We noted that seven imprisoned journalists were not released by pardon decree on the eve of the National Press Day, Eynulla Fetullayev and Faramaz Novruzoglu have health problems. We asked Mr. Hammarberg to visit the journalists and other ill-heath prisoners,” she said. /APA/





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