Co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Azerbaijan Joseph Debono Grech and Pedro Agramunt are unwilling to accept the human rights violation cases in Azerbaijan because of being bribed by Azerbaijani authorities, director of Peace and Democracy Institute Leyla Yunus said.

According to Regnum news agency, Yunus stated that the co-rapporteurs have taken bribes from the Azerbaijani authorities and do not want to see the “real situation.”

According to her, they have not even paid attention to the materials they have presented on human rights’ violations and have not included them in their report.

In particular, the report does not mention the arrest of two journalists and fact of beating a third one.

As to the mass extradition of citizens, the co-rapporteurs insisted that the “absolute majority” was satisfied with the received compensation.

She insisted on replacement of “corrupted PACE representatives” as their report does not reflect the real situation in Azerbaijan.

About twenty civil society activists sent a letter to PACE expressing no confidence to the co-rapporteurs.