{"id":748,"date":"2014-08-27T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=748"},"modified":"2014-08-28T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T13:47:57","slug":"transparency-international-under-pressure-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Transparency International Under Pressure In Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transparency International\u2019s office in Baku says it is being forced to suspend some of its projects in Azerbaijan because of problems receiving funds through its bank in Baku.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transparency Azerbaijan executive director Rana Safaraliyeva told RFE\/RL on August 27 that her team has not been able to receive financial support in the form of bank transfers from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for two months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-749\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Covcas-Rena-Safaraliyeva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-749\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Covcas-Rena-Safaraliyeva.jpg\" alt=\"Rena Safaraliyeva\" width=\"196\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rena Safaraliyeva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said the Baku branch of Unibank, the bank used by her nongovernmental anticorruption group, has been returning wire transfers of funds sent by USAID &#8212; citing technical problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safaraliyeva\u2019s remarks come less than two weeks after Human Rights Watch said Azerbaijan&#8217;s government was pressuring independent organizations that are involved in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, an international coalition that promotes openness in the oil and natural-gas industries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its August 15 statement, Human Rights Watch said Baku\u2019s pressure on groups involved in that anticorruption initiative included the freezing of bank accounts and was part of a broader crackdown that has been escalating since the 2013 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani Service Transparency International\u2019s office in Baku says it is being forced to suspend some of its projects in Azerbaijan because of problems receiving <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=748\" title=\"Transparency International Under Pressure In Azerbaijan\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","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\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}