Atakhan Abilov () is a Talysh national minority and

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activist from

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, lawyer and author of books on

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. He has refugee status from the

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and UN,UCSJ: Volume 8, Number 47: December 5, 2008
/ref> as his colleagues from the "Voice of Talysh" newspaper's editorial staff have already been convicted and have received real terms of imprisonment in Azerbaijan.

Biography

Abilov is a Talysh public activist. While being an independent candidate from #75 Lankaran-Masalli constituency in

, he claimed that bad roads make travel to

Lankaran Lankaran (, ) or Lánkon () is a city in Azerbaijan, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, near the southern border with Iran. As of 2021, the city had a population of 89,300. It is next to, but independent of, Lankaran District. The city forms a disti ...

from the mountain villages close to impossible. Despite the 1999 Azerbaijani official census reported, that there were 76,800 Talysh in Azerbaijan, Abilov claimed that true number is around 320,000. According to

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, Atakhan Abilov, a "Talysh activist, was allegedly detained by officials from the Ministry of National Security f Azerbaijan His apartment was also searched and he was allegedly dismissed from his job at the

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on account of his political convictions". In 2007 he subsequently left Azerbaijan for

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. Abilov is one of de facto refugees who has received such a status from the Russian government. The

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refugee organization also granted him the same status that allows him to leave Russia for a third country. But he waited in Moscow for his family to get out of Azerbaijan. According to a December 3 joint declaration by Talysh leaders, on November 30, 2008, Atakhan Abilov was assaulted in

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by three masked men. Abilov was subsequently hospitalized with a concussion and a broken nose.

Monographs

Author of monographs, presenting an analysis of international human rights standards in relation to the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic and the author of 3 books on the relations of Azerbaijan with the Council of Europe (Council of Europe and Azerbaijan; European Court of Human Rights and Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan in the European family) also co-authored a textbook on Private International Law, BEYNƏLXALQ XÜSUSİ HÜQUQ. Баку - 2007
/ref> written in the law of Azerbaijan Republic. He participated in preparing several drafts of legislative acts adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan is the author of the draft law on private international law.

References

External links

Азербайджан для меня – прежде всего Родина
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Атахан Абилов: "Гилал Мамедов подвергается пыткам и обвиняется в шпионаже в пользу Ирана"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abilov, Atakhan Azerbaijani people of Talysh descent Azerbaijani human rights activists Human rights abuses in Azerbaijan Talysh people The National Talysh Movement Ural State Law University alumni 1965 births Living people