Azerbaijan’s parliament, the Milli Mejlis, has postponed discussion of the proposed amendments to the NGO and media laws scheduled for today. Officials claimed that the deferral was due to lack of but democracy activists insist it was, in the words of one activist “clearly a political move” in response to “strong international and local resistance.”
Some parliamentarians expressed concern that the measures would harm Azerbaijan’s international image. Critics have claimed that the proposed changes would harden the Caspian state’s purportedly soft authoritarianism.
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