“We urge Azerbaijan to build on these pardons by releasing others incarcerated in connection with exercising their fundamental freedoms,” Rathke said.
He added that the closure of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty offices in Baku last week was "further cause for concern."
President Ilham Aliev has signed an order pardoning 87 inmates. The order applies to editor-in-chief of the Khural Newspaper Avaz Zeynalli, editor-in-chief of the P.S. Nota Newspaper Sardar Alibeyli, lawyer Gurban Mammadov, and members of the board of directors of NIDA Civic Movement Zaur Gurbanli and Uzeyir Mammadli.
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