{"id":61708,"date":"2014-11-12T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=61708"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:06:07","slug":"17-nov-protest-azerbaijan-civil-society-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=61708","title":{"rendered":"17 Nov: Protest against Azerbaijan civil society crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For six months, Azerbaijan has been chairing the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Europe&#8217;s top human rights body. During that period, Azerbaijan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/11\/business-usual-azerbaijan\/\">unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society<\/a>\u2014including the imprisonment of human rights defenders and political activists who criticised the government.<\/p>\n<p>Today, as the situation for human rights keeps deteriorating in the country, Azerbaijan is getting ready to host the first European Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Index on Censorship, Platform London and others will be holding a peaceful demonstration in front of the Embassy of Azerbaijan,\u00a04 Kensington Ct, London W8 5DL\u00a0on Monday 17 November 2014\u00a0at 5.00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Join us this Monday to denounce the crackdown on civil society and call for the release of all political prisoners in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t2sjdYGGbAk\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Platform will be holding other demonstrations at 5pm everyday that week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday:\u00a018 November\u00a0BP&#8217;s HQ &#8211; 1 St James&#8217; Sq &#8211;\u00a05pm<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday:\u00a019 November\u00a0&#8211; Uk Foreign and Commonwealth Office on King Charles Street &#8211;\u00a05pm<\/li>\n<li>Thursday:\u00a020 November\u00a0&#8211; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1 Exchange Square (by Liverpool st) &#8211;\u00a05pm<\/li>\n<li>Friday:\u00a021 November\u00a0&#8211; the International Olympic Committee &#8211; 60 Charlotte Street<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please email Melody Patry, Senior Advocacy Officer, on <a href=\"mailto:melody@indexoncensorship.org\">melody@indexoncensorship.org<\/a> or call on 0207 260 2660.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For six months, Azerbaijan has been chairing the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Europe&#8217;s top human rights body. During that period, Azerbaijan unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society\u2014including the imprisonment of human rights defenders and political activists who criticised the government. Today, as the situation for human rights keeps deteriorating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[7145,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61708"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87170,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61708\/revisions\/87170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}