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‘BP has played a major role in the destruction of Azerbaijan’s democracy’
Recently freed human rights defender QIYAS IBRAHIMOV speaks to Ben Cowles about the dangers of political activism in his country and how the West and its corporations are making the situation worse.
Qiyas Ibrahimov speaks with journalists in Baku in April
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President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
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THE word flower in the Azerbaijani language is written like this: “Gul.” Were you to change the first letter to a Q, then it would read:“Qul,” which means slave.
One night three years ago, the then 21-year-old journalism student Qiyas Ibrahimov and his friend Bayram Mammadov decided to use this particular quirk of their mother tongue to make a political point.
“May 10 every year is celebrated as the founder of our autocratic regime Heydar Aliyev’s birthday,” Ibrahimov says.
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