{"id":28119,"date":"2011-09-19T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28119"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:57:50","slug":"azerbaijan-20-years-of-independence-and-the-struggle-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28119","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Azerbaijan &#8211; 20 Years of Independence and the Struggle for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Date:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Tuesday 20 Oct<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Time: 6-7.30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Venue:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Committee Room 6, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: 800;\"><strong>To attend please RSVP to:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rebecca.richards@henryjacksonsociety.org\">rebecca.richards@henryjacksonsociety.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By kind invitation of\u00a0<strong>Paul Flynn MP<\/strong>, the\u00a0Henry Jackson Society\u00a0is pleased to invite you to a discussion with<strong>\u00a0John Dalhuisen<\/strong>, Europe and Central Asia Deputy Programme Director of Amnesty International,\u00a0<strong>Murad Gassanly<\/strong>, co-founder and\u00a0 Acting Director of Azerbaijan Democratic Association, UK, and\u00a0<strong>Michael Harris<\/strong>, Head of Advocacy at Index on Censorship. John, Murad and Michael all have extensive experience in this area and will be addressing the key questions now facing Azerbaijan. Can the situation in Azerbaijan change? Is there hope for a democratic transformation and economic justice? What can Britain (Azerbaijan&#8217;s chief foreign investor) and the wider international community do to facilitate progress?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Dalhuisen\u00a0<\/strong>is currently a Deputy Programme Director for Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International. He has previously worked as a researcher on discrimination in Europe and also on the Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murad Gassanly\u00a0<\/strong>is a British-Azerbaijani political activist, co-founder and Acting Director of Azerbaijan Democratic Association, UK. In the 2005 parliamentary elections he served as a senior political advisor to the Azerbaijani opposition coalition &#8220;Azadliq&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Harris\u00a0<\/strong>is a human rights lobbyist. He is Head of Advocacy at Index on Censorship and lobbies for the Libel Reform Campaign, a campaign to liberalise England\u2019s defamation laws. He has worked behind the scenes on investigative journalism into political corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20 October<\/strong>: Azerbaijan &#8211; 20 Years of Independence and the Struggle for Democracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8867,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28119"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79830,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28119\/revisions\/79830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}