George Clooney expresses hope that peace will be re-established in Artsakh soon

by annemarie Tue 20 Oct 2020, 12:32

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George Clooney, who is an honorary co-chair of the Selection Committee of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, reflected on the ongoing hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict zone.
“We hope and pray for peace as quickly and as soon as possible. It is foremost on all of our minds. It has been an honor for me to have been, from the very beginning, part of this Aurora Prize with Elie Wiesel, the late great Elie,” said George Clooney, Honorary Co-Chair of the Aurora Prize Selection Committee, during the “Gratitude in Action” event commemorating Aurora’s fifth anniversary.

by Admin Tue 20 Oct 2020, 17:40

I'm glad he released a statement on this. Have been watching the goings on with some concern. Can't believe we're this far into the 21st century and countries are still at war.

by party animal - not! Tue 20 Oct 2020, 18:12

Agree, Katie - as is well-known when there's a huge global crisis a lot of other stuff happens

too , in the hope that the rest of the world isn't looking - so this is a really good thing.

And of course Amal has had involvement there too, when she managed to secure the release of

Khadija Ismayilova

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by annemarie Tue 20 Oct 2020, 18:15

Azerbaijan attacks Amal Clooney over support for jailed journalist
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Pro-state media accuse human rights lawyer of harbouring vendetta for taking Khadija Ismayilova’s case to European court. Eurasianet reports

Giorgi Lomsadze for EurasiaNet, part of the New East network
Thu 21 Jan 2016 07.23 ESTLast modified on Thu 11 Aug 2016 05.51 EDT

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Clooney is merely ‘trying to become as famous as her husband’, the actor George Clooney, Azerbaijani media claims. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has sparked outrage in Azerbaijan by taking on the case of jailed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova.
Ismayilova, an outspoken critic of the government, has been in prison for more than a year on charges she claims are politically motivated.
Clooney and the Media Legal Defence Initiative will challenge Ismayilova’s detention in the European court of human rights, saying her extended pre-trial imprisonment violates the European convention.
The Azerbaijani media, which often acts as a mouth piece for the government, responded to the news by accusing Clooney of harbouring a vendetta against the Turkic countries of central Asia.
“Clooney targets Turkic states in her path to fame,” claimed AzerNews on Wednesday – an outlet known to defend the government against criticisms of human rights abuses.

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Khadija Ismayilova, taken in Baku in 2014.
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“We would like to note that Amal Clooney is an ethnic Armenian and she represented Armenian interests in the European court for human rights,” echoed the Haqqin.az news service.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at loggerheads over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh since the 1990s. Clooney is of Lebanese heritage.
Ismayilova, 39, was detained in December 2014 after allegedly prompting a co-worker to attempt suicide but remained in custody even after the the charges were dropped, said Media Legal Defence Initiative attorney Nani Jansen.
The initiative is also representing Ismayilova in a case which accuses the government of failing to prosecute those involved in a sex-video blackmail attempt against her, which they say violated her right to privacy.
The journalist has also been sentenced to seven-and-a-half-years in prison on “economic charges” in a verdict delivered in September. Supporters say the conviction is in retribution for her exposés of corruption at the hands of the president, Ilham Aliyev.
Under the European court rules, Ismayilova’s case must go through the national appeal process before being considered. After being rejected at theBaku court of appeals, Ismayilova’s lawyers filed a case with Azerbaijan’s supreme court and expect to hear back “in two to three months, ” Interfax-Azerbaijan reported.
The attacks on Clooney focus on a 2015 Armenian genocide-denial case she led and lost against a Turkish politician, also at the European court. This has fed accusations that the 37-year-old attorney is on an anti-Turkic tirade.
As close allies, Turkey and Azerbaijan both oppose Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
“Anti-Turkic activities indeed helped Amal, a Lebanese by origin with close roots to large Armenian community in her motherland, to get distinguished in her lawyer career,” wrote AzerNews. Adding that Clooney’s “anti-Turkic” spree was a “bid to catch up [with] with her husband’s [George Clooney] fame.”

by Admin Wed 21 Oct 2020, 08:57

So, this seems to be a new video?

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We pray that peace will be established as soon as possible. George Clooney
"We hope and pray that peace will be established as soon as possible. That's the most important thing we can think of. It was an honor for me to be part of the "Aurora" Prize from the very beginning with Elie Wiesel, the happy memory of Elie".

George Clooney, Honorary Co-Chair of the "Aurora" Prize Selection Committee, said this during the event dedicated to the fifth anniversary of "Aurora".

by Admin Wed 21 Oct 2020, 09:47

Listening to his statement, he's being quite careful in what he says. He's hoping for peace, but not blaming either side for wrongdoing. I mention this because I'm being tweeted at by happy Armenians and angry Azerbaijanis, and yet I don't see that he's particularly taking sides here.

I know the Aurora prize have taken a stand against Azerbaijan, so I guess we could sort-of assume George sides more with Armenia, but he's not actually saying that.

by LizzyNY Wed 21 Oct 2020, 16:15

Well, he did get involved because of the Armenian genocide, so I guess he does have some bias in their favor. That doesn't mean he can't see both sides of the issue and hope for a swift resolution.

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