If Mehriban Aliyeva and her husband President Ilham Aliyev want “correct information,” they should read the resolution on Azerbaijan approved Sept. 10 by the European Parliament, the authoritative American newspaper The Washington Post writes in its editorial board article, referring to the incident occurred during an Azerbaijani photo exhibition in Paris.

At the aforementioned exhibition a French journalist asked Ms Aliyeva about the political prisoners in her country, to which she responded: “It’s not true.”

According to the European Parliament resolution, the human rights situation in Azerbaijan keeps deteriorating and the country suffered the greatest decline in democratic governance in all of Eurasia over the past ten years. “And the European Union’s dialogue with Azerbaijan on human rights has “not made any substantial progress,” the article reads.

Moreover, the day after the resolution was approved, the Azerbaijani government canceled a scheduled European Commission delegation visit that was supposed to discuss the issue of the proposed strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.

“Mr. Aliyev has long believed he could repress dissent at home while fending off criticism from abroad. He has lavished millions of dollars on overseas goodwill efforts. More millions were spent to host the European Games this year in Baku, at which the athletes blithely ignored the human rights abuses. But Mr. Aliyev cannot sustain this forever. The horrid treatment of Ms. Yunus and her husband, Arif, and that of Ms. Ismayilova, have gained widespread attention around the world and won’t be papered over by trendy photo exhibits in Paris,” the authors conclude.