During the PACE winter session, parallel to the plenary sessions, a discussion was organized on political prisoners in Azerbaijan: “Following the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. Ten years after the rejection of Strässer report.
During this period, Azerbaijan’s policy was strongly condemned, and facts about how Azerbaijan bribed hundreds of PACE deputies were presented. In the corridors of PACE, we noticed how Samad Seyidov, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, complained loudly in his language, mentioning the name of Peter Omtzigt, in a conversation with the members of their delegation. The speakers of that discussion are Azerbaijanis, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, Samad Seyidov, and the deputy chairman of the demining agency council of Azerbaijan.
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Strasbourg