{"id":1750,"date":"2015-10-07T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2015-10-08T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T11:31:33","slug":"council-of-europe-leaves-azerbaijan-human-rights-working-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Council of Europe leaves Azerbaijan human rights working group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Council of Europe (CoE)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1751\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Covcas-Jagland-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1751\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Covcas-Jagland-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Covcas-Jagland-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Covcas-Jagland-2.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/secretary-general\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Secretary General<\/a> of the Council of Europe, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, today informed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/t\/cm\/home_en.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Committee of Ministers<\/a> of his decision to withdraw the Council\u2019s participation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/secretary-general\/news-2014\/-\/asset_publisher\/EYlBJNjXtA5U\/content\/first-meeting-of-joint-working-group-on-human-rights-issues-in-azerbaijan\" target=\"_blank\">joint working group on human rights issues in Azerbaijan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since October 2014, a Council of Europe representative had been attending meetings in Baku intended to revive the dialogue between civil society and Azerbaijani authorities. Despite this initiative, the overall situation of human rights defenders in the country has deteriorated dramatically. An increasing number of human right defenders has recently been imprisoned, and the Council of Europe has received worrying reports about unacceptable detention conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to his intervention at the Committee of Ministers, the Secretary General had informed Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev of his decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Council of Europe (CoE) The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, today informed the Committee of Ministers of his decision to withdraw <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1750\" title=\"Council of Europe leaves Azerbaijan human rights working group\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-azerbaijan-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}