Civil Rights Defenders condemns the decision of The Baku Court on Grave Crimes, which has sentenced Rasul Jafarov, prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender and Chairman of the Human Rights Club to ...
At the Baku Court of Grave Crimes the hearing has begun against prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender Rasul Jafarov who has been kept in pre-trial detention since August 02. The Public Prosecuto...
On 2 August Civil Rights Defenders received notification that Azeri journalist, human rights defender and Natalia Project Bearer Rasul Jafarov had been arrested in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is to be held i...
Civil Rights Defenders and 19 other member organisations of the Sports For Right coalition are delighted and relieved after the Azerbaijani authorities released 15 human rights defenders from prison. ...
The human rights situation continues to deteriorate in Azerbaijan in the aftermath of the European Games. On 8 August, the journalist Rasim Aliyev was brutally attacked and severely beaten by a group ...
Civil Rights Defenders has learned that human rights defender Intigam Aliev has had his appeal to dismiss a 7.5 year prison sentence quashed by the Baku Court of Appeal. The Court rejected all motions...
On 22 April 2015, Intigam Aliyev an internationally renowned human rights lawyer was sentenced to seven and half years in prison. He was found guilty on politically motivated charges of tax evasion, i...
Prominent Azerbaijani human rights defenders Rasul Jafarov was arrested on 2 August in Baku, on spurious charges of illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion and abuse of office. His pre trial detention t...
Stockholm, 15 August, 2014 Dear President Ilham Aliyev, Minister of Justice Fikrat Mammadov and Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov, Civil Rights Defenders wish to express our deepest concern over the re...
Rasul Jafarov, a human rights defender from Azerbaijan, is the latest person to be included in the Natalia Project security system. Ongoing pressure against human rights defenders and journalists in A...
