The problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, as identified and described in a January 2020 resolution of the Assembly, “has been neither duly recognized nor adequately addressed by the Baku authorities, let alone resolved, according to a follow-up report of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe released on Wednesday.
The follow-up report, prepared by Thorhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir of Iceland and endorsed by the Assembly’s legal affairs committee at a meeting Wednesday, said most provisions of the resolution “have not been implemented” by the authorities.
“The only exceptions are the inexcusably late quashing of the convictions of Mr Ilgar Mammadov and Mr Rasul Jafarov […] and the late submission of partial information to the Committee of Ministers in the context of its supervision of relevant judgments of the European Court of Human Rights,” the report said.