Catherine Cosman: Religious Freedom Conditions in Azerbaijan Deteriorated Over the Past Few Years Azerbaijan has long presented itself as a model of religious tolerance. President Ilham Aliyev twitted last year that everyone “can see on the example of Azerbaijan how religious and ethnic relations are regulated”. In the meantime, the latest Annual Report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body that was created to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, detailed 51 cases of religious prisoners in Azerbaijan. azerireport/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4367&Itemid=49
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:51:36 +0000
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