Cardin Statement on the Release of Azerbaijani Rights Activist Leyla Yunus...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) Wednesday, December 9, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following...
View ArticleThe Latest: UN resolutions to address Islamic State
PARIS (AP) The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local): 1:04 a.m. Both France and Russia are pursuing U.N. Security Council resolutions that seek to unite the international community...
View ArticleCardin Statement on the Release of Azerbaijani Rights Activist Leyla Yunus...
(Source: Benjamin L Cardin) Wednesday, December 9, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the release of...
View ArticleAzerbaijan frees top rights activist Leyla Yunus on parole
A court in Azerbaijan on Wednesday ordered release on parole of jailed top rights campaigner Leyla Yunus, citing her deteriorating health less than a month after freeing her activist husband. The move...
View ArticleAzerbaijan frees top rights activist Leyla Yunus
Azerbaijan on Wednesday released top rights campaigner Leyla Yunus from prison because of her deteriorating health, less than a month after freeing her activist husband. The move came the day after the...
View ArticleRetired Armenian Officer Arrested On Spy Charges
Armenian authorities have detained a retired military officer on charges of spying for Azerbaijan. The Armenian National Security Service said...
View ArticleOSCE PA’s Santos welcomes release of Azerbaijan’s Leyla Yunus (OSCE -...
(Source: OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) COPENHAGEN, 9 December 2015 - The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Leyla Yunus' release should spur freedom for all prisoners of...
(Source: Amnesty International United Kingdom Section) Azerbaijan: Leyla Yunus' release should spur freedom for all prisoners of conscience The Azerbaijani authorities must follow up today's...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Should Free Human Rights Defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus (Freedom...
(Source: Freedom House) Ahead of the December 9 appeal hearing for Azerbaijani human rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus, Freedom House issued the following statement: 'The health of Leyla Yunus, who...
View ArticleAzerbaijani tanks shell breakaway region: rebels
Azerbaijani tanks on Wednesday shelled positions in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region for the first time in more than 20 years, as Armenia arrested a retired military officer on suspicion of spying...
View ArticleAzerbaijani tanks shell breakaway region killing one: rebels
Azerbaijani tanks on Wednesday shelled positions in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region for the first time in more than 20 years, the rebel defence ministry said, as Armenia arrested a former army...
View ArticleMan who jumped White House fence facing charges: Secret Service
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who jumped the White House fence on Thursday, triggering a lockdown of the presidential mansion, was quickly caught and now faces criminal charges, the U.S. Secret Service...
View ArticleTerror-accused enjoyed billionaire's lifestyle with 'friends of Prince...
Secret files have revealed how a man accused of plotting a Mumbai-style attack had enjoyed a billionaire's lifestyle with "good friends" of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry before his arrest. The...
View ArticleTerror-accused enjoyed billionaire's lifestyle, secret trial files reveal
Secret files have revealed how a man accused of plotting a Mumbai-style attack had enjoyed a billionaire's lifestyle with "good friends" of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry before his arrest. The...
View ArticleInternational Human Rights Day: ALDE Group welcomes the release of...
(Source: ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) The Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus has been freed from prison on grounds of her deteriorating health. Together with her...
View ArticleAzerbaijan says fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh escalates
Azerbaijan says three of its troops have been killed in the past ten days as the conflict in its separatist region of...
View ArticleAzerbaijani-Chinese documents were signed (President of the Republic of...
(Source: President of the Republic of Azerbaijan) A ceremony of signing the Azerbaijani-Chinese documents has been held after the expanded meeting of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham...
View ArticleAzerbaijan releases human rights activist Leyla Yunus
Campaigner still facing treason charges after being freed from jail because of deteriorating health. RFE/RL reports...
View ArticleAzerbaijan shells separatist territory for first time in 20 years
Representatives from disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region say shots were fired from across the border, killing one soldier...
View ArticleWashington Post reporter sentenced in secret – an Iranian shame (Newseum)
(Source: Newseum) Jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian. (Zoeann Murphy/Courtesy The Washington Post and The Associated Press) The Iranian regime has just piled a travesty on top of an...
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