Civil Rights Defenders together with several other civil society organisations who are members of the Sport for Rights Coalition has issued a statement calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to put an...
As members of the Sport for Rights campaign, we are writing regarding the inaugural European Games that will take place from 12–28 June in Baku, Azerbaijan. Although the Azerbaijani regime spends a gr...
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...
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...
Since early 2014, the Government of Azerbaijan has orchestrated an unprecedented campaign to suppress dissenting voices in the country. As a result of this unrelenting crackdown on human rights and fu...
In August 2014, Emin Huseynov, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Reporter’s Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was forced into hiding in order to protect himself from Government repression. At the tim...
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...
The award winning investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested in Baku on 5 December. She is sentenced to two months of pre-trial detention under the accusation of inciting a person to com...
On the morning of 12 October, Khadija Ismayilova, a prominent journalist in Azerbaijan, was prevented from leaving the country by the Prosecutor’s Office to attend a meeting. The legal reasons for the...
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