Azerbaijan went so far as to accuse Paris of “kidnapping and torturing participants of liberation movements” in the colonies. This absurd statement in the mouth of the representative of the Azerbaijani state was made at a “congress” with the participation of leaders of more than 15 political parties and movements for the independence of Corsica, Melanesia, Polynesia, the Caribbean and Antilles. The event was organized by the People's Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe and supported by the Baku Initiative Group.

Head of the Baku Initiative Group Abbas Abbasov promised scholarships to young people from countries “fighting colonialism”, APA reports.

He said an exhibition on the history of colonialism will be held in November as part of COP29. "Also, the Baku Initiative Group states that the French police, arresting members of the colonial movement, treated them as terrorists and secretly took them to Paris. There they were subjected to various tortures. There are women among these people. The Baku Initiative Group says it will help the families of the prisoners and the people who defend them,” Abbas Abbasov said.
The monstrous hypocrisy of Abbasov's statements is that right now dozens of Armenian captives are in Azerbaijani prisons. Among them are former leaders of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic who were taken hostage during the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023. The Azerbaij