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Azerbaijan should eliminate obstacles to the development of civil society and expend efforts for European integration, the former political prisoners Intigam Aliev, Anar Mamedli and Rasul Jafarov said in their today's joint statement.

According to the appeal of 14 international organizations, the Khadija Ismayilova's case proves the suppression of freedom of speech in Azerbaijan.

The journalist Khadija Ismayilova, convicted in Azerbaijan, was awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Award for her contribution to the cause of the freedom of press.

Despite the repression, the Azerbaijani civil society continues struggling for democracy, Intigam Aliev, an Azerbaijani rights defender, has stated after his release from colony.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has made a decision to replace the Intigam Aliev's prison sentence for the conditioned sentence and to release the human rights defender.

The Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan has sent to the Supreme Court (SC) a cassation protest against the verdict to rights defender Intigam Aliev, having found the judgement "too severe." His advocates expect replacement of the real prison term for conditional one.

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has dismissed the complaint of the advocate Tumas Misakyan, who asked to recognize as illegal the suspension of the investigation into the murder of the journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev and recognize illegal the investigator's inaction.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) named nine female journalists placed into custody for their professional activities. Among them, there is the Azerbaijani Khadija Ismayilova.

Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder involved in the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi, has received the results of the forensic examination appointed by investigators. According to him, the date on the document is false, and the list of the experts referred to does not correspond to reality.

During 2015, in Northern Caucasus, serious violations of human rights still occurred, and human rights defenders, who reported on events in the region, faced harassment. This was reported by the international organization "Amnesty International" (AI) in its report released on February 24.

Today, the Azerbaijani Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by human rights defender Intigam Aliev against the verdict of guilty. The defence of Intigam Aliev intends to file a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

On January 21, Fariz Namazly, an advocate of Khadija Ismayilova, visited his client in the women's colony No. 4 in the territory of Azerbaijan. However, the prison officials did not allow him to carry in the documents related to communication on three Ismayilova's complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Nils Muiznieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CE), has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the complaint of the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova against her illegal arrest, says the statement of the Commissioner's office, received today by the "Caucasian Knot".

Fariz Namazly, the advocate of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova, has received a notification from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the start of the communication with the Azerbaijani government on Khadija's complaints about interference with her privacy and defamation in local mass media.

The prison administration had the formal right to place in dungeon Ruslan Kutaev, sentenced in Chechnya, for detection of a mobile phone in his cell; however, in usual, similar violations do not result in such severe punishment. This was stated by Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Committee on Prevention of Torture.