Azerbaijan, Baku, 18 May / corr. Trend M. Aliyev/ The co-chairmen of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe (CE) on Azerbaijan Andreas Herkel and Yevgeniya Jikova began multilateral meetings in Baku on 18 May. The CE representatives met with the representatives of the non-government organizations of Azerbaijan.
The co-chairmen plan to visit the imprisoned Farhad Aliyev, former economic development minister of Azerbaijan, Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor-in-chief of Gundelik Azerbaijan and Realniy Azerbaijan newspapers, Ganimat Zahid, editor-in-chief of the Azadlig daily and Mirza Sakit, the writer for same newspaper of Azerbaijan, Andreas Herkel said to media on 18 May.
"The Council of Europe is concerned about the fact that the journalists are in prison in a period prior to the presidential elections," Herkel stated.
It is worth mentioning that Farhad Aliyev was imprisoned for tax evasion, illegal privatization, bribery and other crimes related to his post.
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