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The Appellate Court considered Eynulla Fatullayev’s appeal from the earlier convictions yesterday. Fatullayev, right, a prominent Azeri journalist, has been convicted on various charges, including terrorism and tax evasion. Many international organizations, including the Council of Europe, OSCE and the European Union, considered those charges to be frivolous and have called on the Azerbaijani government to release the journalist from jail.

The Human Rights House Foundation seeks an independent, dedicated, transparent, structured and impartial person to fill the full-time position as the Coordinating Manager of the Human Rights House Azerbaijan (HRHA).

Republic of Azerbaijan knows what to do with citizens who write in the paper or post on their blogs things that the regime doesn’t like. They charge them with fake accusations and imprison them. In July, a year has gone by since the bloggers Emin Mili and Adnan Hajizade were beaten up and detained in Baku. Right, protesters against their continued detention.

The Azerbaijani authorities ignore pressure from the international community. Most recently, few days after the visit to Republic of Azerbaijan of United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the editor Eynulla Fatullaeyv has been sentenced to 2,5 years imprisonment despite appeals from the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

New York, July 6, 2010 “The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s decision by Azerbaijan’s Garadagh District Court in Baku to sentence imprisoned independent editor Eynulla Fatullayev to two and a half years in a strict-regime prison after finding him guilty of drug possession.

On 29 June, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, unveiled his report on Republic of Azerbaijan. Following his visit carried out on March 1 to 5, the report focuses on freedom of expression and association, conduct of law enforcement officials, administration of justice, and contains some observations on the visit to the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan.

“I feel the existence of a certain lobby that is engaged in this issue,” said Andreas Herkel, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Special Co-rapporteur on Republic of Azerbaijan, according to Turan News Agency.

On 24 June, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted resolution “The functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan?” that was prepared by Monitoring Committee Co-rapporteurs on Republic of Azerbaijan Andreas Herkel and Joseph Debono Grech.

The application for the 2011 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available.