Changes from resolution motion to resolution motion joint

Removedwhereas animal rights activist Kamran Mammadli was detained in the margins of the recent COP29 climate conference;

AddedD. whereas civil society leader Anar Mammadli has been in pre-trial detention since April 2024 on bogus charges, with his health deteriorating due to denied healthcare;

Removedwhereas Rufat Safarov, a human rights defender and former investigator at the Prosecutor’s Office, was detained on 3 December 2024 on charges of fraud and hooliganism and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted;

AddedE. whereas in early December 2024, the Azerbaijani authorities arrested MeydanTV journalists Aynur Ganbarova, Aytaj Ahmadova, Khayala Agayeva, Natig Javadli and Aysel Umudova, and journalists Ramin Jabrayilzade and Ahmad Mukhtar; whereas they also arrested Baku Journalism School deputy director Ulvi Tahirov, political leader Azer Gasimli and human rights defender Rufat Safarov; whereas all face unfounded, politically motivated charges;

Removedwhereas on 6 December 2024 Azerbaijani authorities detained five journalists associated with Meydan TV, a Berlin-based Azerbaijani media outlet, and one independent journalist on charges of foreign currency smuggling; whereas they face up to eight years in prison;

AddedF. whereas environmental activist Kamran Mammadli was attacked by security guards at COP29 and is banned from travelling;

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AddedG. whereas prisoners’ human rights are routinely violated through detention in inhumane conditions, torture and specific harassment of female political prisoners, including Nargiz Absalamova;

RemovedExpresses its concern about the human rights situation in Azerbaijan; urges Azerbaijan to fulfil its obligations under its own constitution and under international agreements to protect fundamental freedoms and respect the human dignity of its citizens, and to ban the use of criminal prosecution as a tool to suppress government critics and members of civil society;

Added1. Strongly condemns the Azerbaijani regime’s reported ongoing violations of human rights, including freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, and its politically motivated abuse of the criminal justice system;

RemovedCalls on Azerbaijan to lift the travel ban on Gubad Ibadoghlu, to drop all charges against him and to allow him independent medical examination by a doctor of his own choosing and to receive treatment abroad;

Added2. Urges the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately end the crackdown on all dissident groups and unconditionally release and drop all charges against human rights defenders, journalists and political and other activists prosecuted under fabricated, politically motivated charges;

RemovedCalls on the authorities to release Anar Mammadli, Kamran Mammadli, Rufat Safarov, the journalists linked to Meydan TV and all others imprisoned for exercising their fundamental rights, and to drop all charges against them;

Added3. Demands that the authorities immediately lift the travel ban on Ibadoghlu, unconditionally drop all charges against him and allow him to receive urgent treatment abroad; deplores the fact that Ibadoghlu was not allowed to attend the Sakharov Prize ceremony or connect remotely;