Administrative detention is on the rise in Azerbaijan and it has targeted scores of people who vocally oppose the government. Over the last three years a total of 55 representatives of opposition parties from the National Front Party of Azerbaijan (NFPA), the Musavat Party, and the youth movement NIDA, have been detained on administrative charges. The aim seems that of creating a climate of fear and limit activists’ action in the public space.
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Ilqar Valiyev
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A wedding in Talysh: The Struggle to Keep the Language Alive. A man in a black, no-tie suit walks towards a house surrounded by a group of men in white shirts. Notes of traditional Azerbaijani music dissolve in the air - it’s the vağzalı, played when a bride leaves her parents’ house to join her future husband. The man is Farail Abbasov and he is getting married. One by one every man approaches the groom, hugs him, congratulates him, and then the dance starts.
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