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‘The West is wilfully blind to Azerbaijan’s crimes’
Azerbaijani peace activist ZAMIRA ABBASOVA tells Ben Cowles how her country’s kleptocratic government forced her into exile
Theresa May shakes the bloody hands of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, yet another human rights abusing dictator of an oil-rich Western-backed regime
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
“THE security service tracked down my mother and interrogated my father,” Zamira Abbasova, an exiled Azerbaijani peace activist and podcaster, tells me.
Zamira Abbasova
“They said to him: ‘Tell your daughter to stop this charade. If she doesn’t, you know what we will do to her’.”
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