Lords' Free Azerbaijan Visit

This is a Azerbaijan news story, published by Guardian, that relates primarily to Darren Mott news.

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String of UK peers accepted free trips to authoritarian Azerbaijan

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Iain McNicol, Darren Mott and Tahir Gözel laid wreath at Heydar Aliyev’s grave in Baku , Azerbaijan .

McNicol and Mott are the most recent in a line of peers to have taken free trips to Azerbaijan .

Human rights groups are concerned endorsements given by peers risk legitimising an authoritarian state.

Lord Evans has disclosed four trips to Azerbaijan to observe elections in 2015 , 2018 and 2020 .

Independent election monitors have raised concerns about both the polls and the role of peers in endorsing the way they were conducted.

In September , a year after 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh during another military operation, the Liberal Democrat peer Qurban Hussain had his travel, accommodation and subsistence paid for by Azerbaijan ’s parliament.

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