{"id":26190,"date":"2023-08-29T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=26190"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:04:07","slug":"gubad-ibadoghlu-and-bakhtiyar-hajiyev-must-be-immediately-released-senator-durbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/gubad-ibadoghlu-and-bakhtiyar-hajiyev-must-be-immediately-released-senator-durbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gubad Ibadoghlu and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev &#8216;Must Be Immediately Released&#8217; \u2014 Senator Durbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A key U.S. senator on Monday, once again, urged Azerbaijan to free leading government critics Gubad Ibadoghlu and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, TURAN&#8217;s Washington correspondent reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said that the U.S. &#8216;cannot forget&#8217; political prisoners wrongfully detained by President Aliyev&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>Gubad Ibadoghlu and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev &#8220;must be immediately released,&#8221; Durbin added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Durbin called on the Azerbaijani government to release political prisoners and &#8220;instead focus on joining the community of democracies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hajiyev was arrested last December for alleged \u201chooliganism\u201d and \u201cdisrespect for court\u201d, while Ibadoghlu was detained last month on a charge of &#8220;counterfeiting&#8221;, claims that both of them and their supporters strongly dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Both have recently been subject to new accusations while in jail.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A key U.S. senator on Monday, once again, urged Azerbaijan to free leading government critics Gubad Ibadoghlu and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, TURAN&#8217;s Washington correspondent reports. Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said that the U.S. &#8216;cannot forget&#8217; political prisoners wrongfully detained by President Aliyev&#8217;s government. Gubad Ibadoghlu and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev &#8220;must be immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26197,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}