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HRHF and Article 19 in Strasbourg to lobby for Azeri journalist’s release

HRHF, represented by Vugar Goyaev, manager of HRH Baku, travels to Strasbourg today as part of an NGO delegation to lobby for Azeri journalist Eynulla Fatullayev’s release. Reporters Without Borders and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers are also part of the joint advocacy effort.

Published: November 30, 2010 Author: Ane Tusvik Bonde, HRHF

When: Tuesday, 30. November 2010
To: Thursday, 2. December 2010
Where: Strasbourg, Council of Europe
Contact: Ane Tusvik Bonde, HRHF (ane.bonde@humanrightshouse.org / +47 997 43 907)

As the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ Deputies is set to discuss the case of Eynulla Fatullayev, currently serving a long prison sentence for exercising of his right to freedom of expression, it will be visited by an international delegation of human rights NGOs all concerned with the freedom of expression situation in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Fatullayev remains in prison despite a European Court of Human Rights judgment on 22 April this year ordering the Azerbaijani government to release him immediately.

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