Azerbaijani right advocates hold meetings in PACE

The Human Rights Organizations Monitoring Group hold several meetings within PACE’s summer session. Secretary of Human Rights Organizations Monitoring Group Yegane Tariverdiyeva said that the members of monitoring group held meetings in the political committee with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland, Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg, PACE Special Reporter on political prisoners in Azerbaijan Christoph Strässer, Secretary of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

Thomas Markert, head of “Ago” group of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers Stelian Stoian, Member of Estonian delegation to PACE Andres Herkel.

The main discussion issue concerned the pardon. The right advocates highly assessed the pardon decree. They noted that they would continue their work on discharge of 13 persons in the list, as well as Bakhtiyar hajiyev, Jabbar Savalanli. At their meetings, the human right activist underlined that they saw the ways of escape from the problems in the country only in the dialog of the forces which represent the society.


/APA/