{"id":176083,"date":"2016-05-20T16:02:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/the-aliyevs-azerbaijan\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:04:33","slug":"the-aliyevs-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-aliyevs-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aliyevs&#8217; Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/58190\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58190\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  The liberals of Azerbaijan have finally got what they were waiting for: a reaction from their European friends on the torture of Bayram Mammadov and Qiyas Ibrahimov who have been unfairly accused of drug trafficking, when all they actually did was decorated the foundation of a statue of Heydar Aliyev with the words, \u201cHappy Slave Day!\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    The praise-worthy bravery of Muiznieks<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  European Commissioner Nils Muiznieks, having gathered his wits and bravery about him, accused the Azerbaijani authorities of \u201cill &#8211; treatment! (wow! ill &#8211; treatment? in Azerbaijan? never!) of the youth and their unfair arrest and detention by Baku police.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He could not have found a more diplomatic euphemism for the extensive corpus of traditionally &#8211; accepted forms of torture and humiliation which have been legalized by the Aliyev regime in Azerbaijan \u2014 of which he is doubtlessly (and Europeanly) well &#8211; aware.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    Better than nothing.<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Having taken a deep breath of air and straining the entirety of his European upbringing, Mr. Muiznieks dared to \u201curge\u201d the authorities of the country to conduct an effective inquiry into the accusations of \u201cill &#8211; treatment\u201d that befell the two youth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I\u2019ll be objective: this \u201curging\u201d is better than nothing, given that this mess of an affair has passed with the deafening silence of civil society and the masses in general.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And now I would like to share with Muiznieks a rather well &#8211; known secret.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    Azerbaijan Today<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijan today is a country in which investigators, security services and procurators can, with a smile on their mustaches, have sex with the woman of a man suspected of a crime while his children and other relatives look on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijan today is a country where a suspect can be threatened to be raped by a police baton if he doesn\u2019t confess to a prepared testimony. And a country where, in the rare event that a suspect shows resistance to the demands of the police, his rape may be filmed by camera to be used for future black-mailing and leverage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijan is a country in which the authorities, beginning from the very head of the government down to the prison guards, have the most distorted and perverse understanding of the words \u201chonor\u201d and \u201cconscience.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And Azerbaijan is a country in which Slave Day &#8211; officially known as Flower Day &#8211; is celebrated on the birthday of the country\u2019s beloved ex &#8211; dictator.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That said, let\u2019s call things for what they really are.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    This article reflects the opinion of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinion of MeydanTV.<br \/>\n  <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liberals of Azerbaijan have finally got what they were &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Aliyevs&#8217; Azerbaijan\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-aliyevs-azerbaijan\/#more-176083\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Aliyevs&#8217; Azerbaijan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":58190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Aliyevs&#039; Azerbaijan - MEYDAN.TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-aliyevs-azerbaijan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Aliyevs&#039; Azerbaijan - MEYDAN.TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The liberals of Azerbaijan have finally got what they were ... 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