In front of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia a protest was held demanding to release the political prisoners in Azerbaijan, contact.az reports.
Among the protesters were representatives of international human rights organizations, civil society activists and journalists. They held banners with slogans in English "Freedom to political prisoners!" and portraits of imprisoned human rights defenders in Azerbaijan - Leyla Yunus, Rasul Jafarov, Intigam Aliyev, and journalist Khadija Ismayilova.
"It is a very bad situation in Azerbaijan concerning human rights. We call on the Azerbaijani authorities to take serious steps towards releasing the political prisoners,"- representative of the Czech organization League of Human Rights Martin Dutkaivich said.