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Prosecution of Talysh activists
Azerbaijani authorities have repeatedly prosecuted Talysh activists, journalists and researchers advocating autonomy, decentralization or minority-language rights.
Global timeline
Dated events from published cases, in chronological order. Dates keep their real precision; a period filter includes any event whose date range overlaps it.
Events
9 events.
Events over time
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Hong Kong protests, 2019-2020
The largest protests in Hong Kong's modern history arose over an extradition bill and continued for months.
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· Referendum or popular consultation
Bangsamoro Organic Law plebiscite, 2019
Voters overwhelmingly approved the law establishing the BARMM as a self-governing region.
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· Legal decision
ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Chagos Archipelago, 2019
The International Court of Justice found in a 2019 advisory opinion that the 1965 detachment of the Chagos Archipelago was not lawfully agreed and that Mauritius's decolonisation was not completed in 1968; the General Assembly then called on the UK to withdraw its administration.
In: Mauritius
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· Legal decision
Davis v. Guam Ninth Circuit ruling, 2019
A federal appeals court struck down the race-restricted plebiscite voter eligibility rule as unconstitutional.
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· Legislation
Abrogation of Article 370, 2019
India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special constitutional status and reorganised it into two Union Territories.
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· Administrative change
Reconstitution of Ladakh as a Union Territory, 2019
Ladakh became a legislature-less Union Territory following the abrogation of Article 370, triggering the statehood movement.
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· Agreement
Riyadh Agreement, 2019
Saudi mediation produced a power-sharing agreement between the internationally recognized government and the STC, whose implementation stalled.
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· Referendum or popular consultation
Bougainville referendum, 2019
Bougainvilleans chose between greater autonomy and independence; 176,928 of 181,067 ballot papers counted were for independence.
In: Bougainville