{"id":134367,"date":"2024-10-07T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/use-climate-summit-to-save-our-dad-say-children-of-london-academic-held-in-azerbaijan\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:00:58","slug":"use-climate-summit-to-save-our-dad-say-children-of-london-academic-held-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/use-climate-summit-to-save-our-dad-say-children-of-london-academic-held-in-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Use climate summit to save our dad, say children of London academic held in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134367\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The family of Gubad Ibadoghlu want senior U.K. politicians to raise his case at the global COP29 summit in Baku next month.<\/p>\n<p>The children of a London-based academic held under house arrest in Azerbaijan have urged U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to use global climate talks in Baku to press for their father\u2019s release. Gubad Ibadoghlu, a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a critic of Azerbaijan\u2019s oil and gas policies, was detained in July 2023 on what human rights groups say are fabricated charges. He spent months in prison before being moved to house arrest in April.<\/p>\n<p>His son Ibad Bayramov, 24, told POLITICO his father\u2019s health was deteriorating and that November\u2019s COP29 climate summit \u201cmight be the last opportunity\u201d to focus international attention on his case. \u201cCOP29 is an opportunity like no other. If this opportunity will not be taken, for values that the U.K. government [should] stand by, then it is incredibly tough to say when this opportunity would arise again,\u201d Bayramov said.<\/p>\n<p>The case throws a spotlight on alleged human rights abuses in Azerbaijan \u2014 this year\u2019s COP host \u2014 and the tensions they create for Starmer and his ministers, at a time when the U.K. hopes to use the summit as a staging post for re-establishing itself as a global climate leader. A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spokesperson said the U.K. would \u201ccontinue to use our diplomatic channels to raise our concerns about the protection of freedoms and human rights in Azerbaijan,\u201d but did not commit to raising the case at COP.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known whether Starmer will personally attend the conference in Baku next month, but Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will go as the U.K.\u2019s head of delegation and Foreign Secretary David Lammy is also expected to attend. If Starmer does go, as a head of government he would be expected to meet with Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev \u2014 and Bayramov wants the U.K. PM to use any meeting to raise his father\u2019s case. Britain, as the biggest foreign investor in Azerbaijan, had a special responsibility to speak out, he said. The two countries have deep investment and energy ties, particularly via the oil and gas giant BP and its fossil fuel projects in the Caspian Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty obvious that economic ties bring quite a bit of leverage to the U.K. over Azerbaijan \u2014 something that not a lot of countries in the world have,\u201d Bayramov said. \u201cThat gives an opportunity for the U.K. to raise issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ibadoghlu was arrested while visiting Azerbaijan last year. According to Amnesty International he is accused by the Baku government of producing, acquiring, or selling counterfeit money. He and his family deny all charges. Amnesty said the claims are \u201cfabricated\u201d and that his arrest was \u201can apparent retaliation for his criticism of the government.\u201d Ibadoghlu\u2019s family wants the Azerbaijani government to allow him to leave the country so he can receive surgery for a heart problem. They say the condition has worsened during his time in detention.<\/p>\n<p>Bayramov said the governments of Germany and America had taken the lead so far in pressuring Azerbaijan over his father\u2019s case. \u201cI have not seen much action from the U.K. government so far,\u201d he added. The government had been \u201cacting like he doesn\u2019t exist and continuing with their economic ties,\u201d he said. \u201cMy father was someone working in London for a university that has produced students that go on to become U.K. politicians,\u201d Bayramov said. Ed Miliband himself completed a Masters degree course at the LSE in the 1990s. The LSE has called for Ibadoghlu\u2019s immediate release.<\/p>\n<p>In a written response to a parliamentary question last month, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said the U.K. \u201chas consistently advocated for appropriate medical access and treatment, and the right to a fair legal process\u201d \u2014 and pointed to a joint U.K. statement with the U.S, Germany and France posted on X more than a year ago \u2014 a response which disappointed Ibadoghlu\u2019s family. \u201cYou don\u2019t solve political issues through tweets,\u201d said Bayramov \u201cIs this the best the U.K. government could put on the table?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/use-climate-summit-to-save-our-dad-say-children-of-london-academic-held-in-azerbaijan\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/use-climate-summit-to-save-our-dad-say-children-of-london-academic-held-in-azerbaijan\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/use-climate-summit-to-save-our-dad-say-children-of-london-academic-held-in-azerbaijan\/\">Use climate summit to save our dad, say children of London academic held in Azerbaijan<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4368,16397,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-azerbaijan","tag-london-school-of-economics","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}