Dear Mr. Krvirikashvili, we write to express our deepest concern about the abduction of Afgan Mukhtarli, an exiled Azerbaijani journalist, on 29 May in Tbilisi. He went missing after leaving his colle...
Civil Rights Defenders is concerned by the persistent harassment of the family of Azerbaijani human rights defender Bashir Suleymanli, Director of the Institute for Citizen Rights and Co-Founder of th...
Several of Azerbaijan’s primary independent news websites have been inaccessible for several days, apparent victims of the government’s escalating cyberwar against dissent. On March 27, Meydan TV, Aza...
Civil Rights Defenders calls upon the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately release Mehman Huseynov, a prominent blogger and Chairperson of the press freedom organiSation, the Institute for Reporters...
Civil Rights Defenders and a coalition of 20 leading civil society organisations calls on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a prominent international coalition, to suspend Azer...
The trial of conservative Sh’ia religious activists involved in what is known as the ‘Nardaran Affair’ has reached its long-expected conclusion, with all 17 defendants sentenced to up to 20-year priso...
A number of press freedom and human rights organisations including International Media Support strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on Azerbaij...
Civil Rights Defenders and several of its partners from the Sport for Rights coalition call upon the Azerbaijani authorities to reverse the alarming trend as it carries out a multi-pronged attack on f...
In recent weeks renowned journalist and human rights defender Khadija Ismayilova has been subjected to cyber attacks and has expressed no doubts that the Azerbaijani authorities are to blame for these...
The outcome of Azerbaijan’s elections were never in doubt, and the consitutional referendum on September 26. that one prominent activist described as “a full-frontal assault on democracy” was no excep...
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