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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 10:43:52 EDT
AZERBAIJANI OFFICIALS SAY U.S. REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IS BIASED
The Azerbaijani leadership is not happy with a U.S. State Department report released earlier this week on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, Turan reported on 3 April. The agency quoted Rabiyat Aslanova, deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary commission for human rights, as saying the report shows "political blindness" in ignoring improvements in the human rights sphere. She also said she believes the report was compiled on the basis of erroneous and inaccurate information. The report criticized, among other perceived shortcomings, corruption and inefficiency of the judiciary, human rights abuses committed by security forces, arbitrary arrests and detentions, the torture of suspects by police, the violent dispersal by police of demonstrations, and harassment of journalists and restrictions on media freedom. LF
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