Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Aliyev v. Azerbaijan, which ruled that prominent human rights lawyer and 2016 Civil Rights Defe...
Civil Rights Defenders, International Partnership for Human Rights, International Federation for Human Rights, and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee are gravely concerned to hear of new disciplinary ...
Update: In the evening of 5 June, Emin Aslan’s lawyer Elchin Sadigov was informed Aslan had been sentenced to thirty days administrative detention under Article 535.1 of the Code of Administrative Off...
The nine-month farce that has consumed Afgan Muxtarli’s life since he was kidnapped off the street by Georgian security services ended today with a reprehensible verdict in a court in Azerbaijan’s rem...
The Azerbaijani government’s proposed amendments to the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure and the Bar Act were approved by parliament on 31 October 2017. The amendments, which were first prop...
Together with 36 other human rights NGOs, Civil Rights Defenders has sent an open letter to EU member states heads ahead of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Brussels to participate in the...
The Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova is one of this year’s recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, an award that is widely referred to as the “alternative Nobel Prize”. Khadij...
The attack on Baku’s LGBT community is continuing, as local activists say Bakuvians with “non-traditional appearance” are still being stopped and questioned on the street and around metro stations. Co...
Over the last several days, police in Baku, Azerbaijan carried out mass arrests of at least 100 members of the LGBT community. In official statements, local authorities and government-friendly NG...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns a new series of attacks on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. We are now witnessing even more ruthless methods of repressions such as abduction, forced return, and to...
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