“Do human rights advocates of Azerbaijan support the political prisoners recognized as prisoners of conscience by the Amnesty International?” Human rights advocate, Novella Jafaroglu says: “When the rights of journalists are violated in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Iran and other countries, we stand up to defend them by collecting signatures and expressing our support”. One more human rights advocate, Chingiz Ganizade noted they don’t have any special opportunities to undertake definite steps in this direction: “There are dozens of problems in the realm of human rights and human rights advocates have a lot to do as well”. Lawyer, Isahan Ashurov says that our human rights advocates aren’t really able to support foreign political prisoners and organize strong campaigns. Chief of the research center “East-West”, Arastun Orujlu said that the Azerbaijani system of human rights protection isn’t yet ready to conduct campaigns at the international level.
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