Joint Working Group

BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 3, 2011 - ? Joint Working Group of human rights experts finds Norway Government participation in domestic partisan politics "perplexing" "With most of the 55 officially registered political parties in Azerbaijan supporting the Opposition, and dozens of Opposition newspapers that publish freely, Azerbaijan is a gradually evolving democracy with freedom of speech in which Opposition parties are playing an increasingly outspoken and prominent role in civil society," according to an international working group of prominent European academics and human rights experts that met on Wednesday in Baku for their semi-annual conference.