AI ACCUSES EYNULLA FATULLAYEV OF PARTICIPATING IN PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN OF THE ALIYEV REGIME
BRUSSELS. January 22, 2013: International human rights organization
Amnesty International has announced the termination of its
collaboration with a former prisoner of conscience, the head of the
Public Association for Human Rights in Azerbaijan, Eynulla Fatullayev.
Amnesty International believes that Fatullayev, and in particular, his
site Haqqin.az, is used by the Government of Azerbaijan to discredit
European criticism of human rights violations in Azerbaijan.
Fatullayev creates a misconception of human rights violations, arguing
that the phenomenon, which is common in Azerbaijan, is just as common
in Germany.
In this regard, he uses criticism of Amnesty International about the
situation of the rights and freedoms in this European country.
On Monday, January 21 Fatullayev presented in the European Press Club
in Brussels, a report of the Public Association for Human Rights,
“Decline of the West, or the crisis of European values.”
Earlier, according to Amnesty International, he requested the German
office of the Speaker of the organization to speak at a presentation
on the topic of human rights violations in Germany. He also claimed
that the project is funded by the Black Sea Fund (BST) of the German
Marshall Fund. But the Marshall Fund denied the report by Fatullayev.
The BST Consultant on Azerbaijan, Mehriban Rahimli, stated that
“the mention of BST with this project is not appropriate. BST has
not funded or supported this study and its presentation.”
In turn, Fatullayev denounced statements by Amnesty International,
accusing the organization of selectivity in human rights and freedoms.
“It turns out that there are selected untouchable states, which
cannot be criticized. Such statements undermine the very philosophy
of European values. With what moral authority then, can these
organizations dictate anything to anyone else?” he wrote on his
website haqqin.az.
He also laid out information about the presentations, where apart from
Fatullayev there were: the leader of the Frankfurt movement “Occupy
Frankfurt” Pilts Thomas, president of the Turkish community in Germany,
known public figure, Kenan Kolat, director of the Eurasian Program
of the International Institute of Media, Stephen Ellis, and others.
The speakers strongly criticized the German government and urged the
public not to remain indifferent to the facts of tyranny and violence
against people who disagree with the policies of Berlin.
Their concern was reinforced by showing a 38-minute film “The Decline
of Europe”, prepared by Internews Azerbaijan.
Note that the report “Decline of the West, or the crisis of European
values,” claims to be an analytical study on democracy, human rights,
and politics of multiculturalism in Germany and in Europe in general,
and was published on the web-site
The international research team of the project tries to answer the
following questions: Why does multiculturalism fail in such a tolerant
country as Germany? Why are the issues of human rights and freedoms
of speech and assembly relevant in this rich country, as well as in
countries with decorative democracy? Why are there frequent cases
of social unrest and protests, corruption scandals? Why does German
society often support revisionist and neo-Nazi sentiments?
The international group started comparative analysis and identification
of the systemic crisis of liberal values within Germany. This is
due to a stable democratic image, high and significant political
and economic status, as well as the specific role of this country in
world and European processes. At the same time, the emerging trend
of the crisis of ideas of multiculturalism, tolerance and liberal
values has been experienced in Germany in recent years.
Generalizing many of the facts, the Association for Human Rights
provided the following problems in this country: 1) The crisis of
multiculturalism and lower ethnic and religious tolerance, the costs
of immigration policy; 2) Problems in the prison, law enforcement and
judicial systems in Germany, flaws in legal practice; 3) Violations
of human rights, freedom of speech and assembly, excessive use of
force to disperse protests (Turan).
http://azerireport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3840&Itemid=53
www.thedecline.info.