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The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has submitted a note to the Foreign Ministry of Republic of Azerbaijan concerning the latest attacks upon Norwegian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Steinar Gil. (28-JULY-2004)

Two unknown men assaulted and beat Eynulla Fatullayev, a famed reporter of an opposition magazine, Monitor, on Monday, in the city centre.  Fatullayev is known for his extremely critical articles about the various officials of the incumbent Azerbaijani government. (27 July 2004)

The Election Monitoring Centre (EMC) of non-governmental organizations was established on July 24, 2001 on the initiative of 8 NGOs in Republic of Azerbaijan.  The EMC primarily works in the direction of the development of the election system, improvement of the election legislation, organization of monitoring in the election process, creation of the democratic election environment, and assistance to hold a democratic election. (26 July 2004)

The Monitoring Group of NGOs hold a roundtable on assessing the latest report of the CE experts on political prisoner issue in the Republic of Azerbaijan last Friday. The CE experts’ report, which says the problem of political prisoners in Republic of Azerbaijan has been solved, met with protests and confusion by the local human rights activists and opposition-minded political parties.  (25 July 2004)

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court revoked the legal status of a Muslim organization, accusing it of spreading “religious propaganda,” the court’s presiding judge said Thursday, Associated Press reported. (23 july 2004)

Jean-Louis Laurens, Director of the Council of Europe (CE) on Strategic Planning Department, stressed in a Friday meeting with Samad Seyidov, chairman of the permanent parliamentary commission on international relations, that he expected Azerbaijan’s parliamentary elections in 2005 to be held more democratically and fairly. (23 July 2004)

The new head of the Baku office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Maurizio Pavesi, on Thursday stated that the incidents like the recent kidnapping of the Baku Khabar chief editor “poses a threat to the future of the press in Republic of Azerbaijan,” Turan reported. (23 July 2004)

On July, 15, 2004 at 12-00 representatives of Committee ” For Civil Rights “, the Moscow Helsinki Group, social movement ” Civil Resistance “, social movement ” For human rights” and political partie “Yabloko” carried out joint protest action against militian boundlessness in Bashkortostan near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. (23-JULY-04)
 

On 21 July there turned 10 years of the rule of Aliaksandr Lukashenka. Belarusian opposition held a peaceful action of protest in the center of the capital. The meeting was violently dispersed by special police forces.