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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. In an effort to cheer up children amid the blockade, Stepanakert City Hall decided not to cancel the National New Year Tree Lighting Ceremony and is inviting residents to attend the ceremony in the capital of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. In an effort to cheer up children amid the blockade, Stepanakert City Hall decided not to cancel the National New Year Tree Lighting Ceremony and is inviting residents to attend the ceremony in the capital of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. In an effort to cheer up children amid the blockade, Stepanakert City Hall decided not to cancel the National New Year Tree Lighting Ceremony and is inviting residents to attend the ceremony in the capital of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh).
A Baku court fined Shola Jafarova two months' average wage for holding mourning meetings in the Muslim holy month of Muharram and organising children to sing a mourning song uploaded to social media. A Goychay court similarly fined Samira Jafarova for a social media video with 15 children performing a lamentation for Imam Hussain (the third Imam of Shia Islam). She told her appeal hearing that "holding a religious ceremony is her right arising from the Constitution", but the court rejected her appeal.
Multiple prosecutions and fines of Muslims - who in different parts of Azerbaijan met for Islamic worship in homes without state permission - have followed raids by police and State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations officials. The Muslims were each fined the equivalent of about two months' average wages for those in formal work. For people in rural areas, those without a formal job, or pensioners, such fines are a heavy financial burden.