Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijani Opposition Tuesday Interpol Not to Extradite Yunus Couple on Demand from Baku Baku / 06/13/17 / Turan: Following a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and on behalf of lawyers from the European Human Rights Advocacy Center addressed to the Secretary General of Interpol, Prof Dr Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, INTERPOL received a joint appeal of 26 international human rights organizations entitled: "Prevent the misuse of Interpol in case of prominent Azerbaijani human rights defenders". The link of this appeal in English is: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__iphronline.org&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=LVw5zH6C4LHpVQcGEdVcrQ&m=zi4PQSy9Dajv9cp5HDFaFYuvvwMTYCE2Jz6D385l3nY&s=QOoQBtsn7GOBupurhzD1AYYTr_pToPNiseDinjq6Gc4&e= /joint-ngo-appeal-prevent-misuse-inter, the historian Arif Yunus said. The Interpol response has already been received, which says that the Azerbaijani authorities' request to arrest Arif and Leila Yunus and forced deportation to Azerbaijan will be rejected. "Thus, the question of our compulsory extradition with the help of Interpol is closed, but we are not going to end our struggle on this.Amongless that, the authorities of Azerbaijan raised an important topic: the need to reform Interpol to prevent the use of this international institution in the struggle of dictatorial and authoritarian regimes with dissidents. After all, these regimes in many countries in the post-Soviet space and in other regions of the world have long been trying to use Interpol to arrest and deport dissidents from their countries. We raised this issue to prevent the use of Interpol in the dirty intentions of the dictators," A. Yunus said on the Facebook page. In May, the Baku Court of Appeal ruled that the human rights activists and former political prisoners Leila and Arif Yunus that had to leave the country and are currently living in the Netherlands should be forcibly brought to the court. * Recall that Leila and Arif Yunus were arrested in 2014, and convicted on a far-fetched charge of spying for Armenia in 2015. They spent about a year and a half in prison. They were released on parole, but the charges were not quashed. Later they were allowed to go abroad for treatment. -0-