Journalist Huseynov repatriated from Azerbaijan. A great coup of Swiss diplomacy
(B2) The Azeri journalist Emin Huseynov, who had taken refuge for ten months in the Swiss embassy in Baku, has just been exfiltrated. He arrived overnight from Friday to Saturday at Belp airport (Bern), on the plane of Swiss Federal Councilor Didier Burkhalter, who had taken part, a few hours earlier, in the opening ceremony of the European Games. " He was taken care of by collaborators of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. specify it communicated of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs which announces the information.
Negotiation with the Azerbaijani authorities
No longer feeling safe at home, Huseynov had entered the Swiss embassy in Baku on August 18, 2014 posing as a Swiss citizen and had thus been able to escape the Azerbaijani police. " Switzerland, for humanitarian reasons, had authorized him to stay on the premises of the embassy until a satisfactory solution was found between him and the Azerbaijani authorities who wished to question him. »
Seven journalists in jail in Azerbaijan
It is " a great victory for press freedom defenders in Azerbaijan commented Ricardo Gutierrez, from the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ). Corn " seven journalists still languishing in prison, in Azerbaijan, mostly on the basis of fabricated evidence ».
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