Our organization was established a few year ago. It has been established by a married couple-Rena and Hajimurad Sadaddinov. The most unique feature of our organization is that at the time of its creation Hajimurad Sadaddinov was a political prisoner in the prison of strict regime. And the basis of the organization was created in jail. In spite of that these kinds of activities were illegal, Mr.Sadaddinov always protected his rights and the rights of other innocent prisoners. With the help of this wife Rena Sadaddinova, Mr. Sadaddinov worked hard for his own liberation and the liberation of the prisoners that he considered to be innocent. In the result of the hard work of Rena and Murad Sadaddinov many international organizations became aware of this case and among the Azeri community this activity was known as All for One campaign.
All for One campaign has conducted a significant job. This campaign has no analogues in the history of independent Azerbaijan. Thanks to our funds activities we achieved that the Council of Europe committee of legislation and Human Rights sent an official demand to the government of Azerbaijan concerning Mr. Sadaddinovs liberation.
The campaign also achieved that Sadaddinovs case was discussed at the hearing in the Helsinki committee of the US Congress. At this hearing he was announced to be a political prisoner and his liberation was demanded. The final results of this campaigns activity was the release of Hajimurad Sadaddinov.
At present Mr. and Mrs. Sadaddinov are the heads of the Azerbaijan Foundation of Democracy Development and Human Rights Protection which is a non-governmental organization. This is the first non-governmental human rights organization in Azerbaijan that was invited by the Human Rights committee of the Council of Europe on April, 2001 to report on the situation with the human rights in Azerbaijan, and this report helped the Council of Europe to coordinate its work with Azerbaijan. Our foundation is the only one in Azerbaijan to have very strong connections with the Council of Europe.
As the result of our foundations work many famous political prisoners have been liberated
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