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...
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...
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...
Yesterday, 27 May, was a bleak day for freedom of speech as Azerbajani journalist and blogger Abdul Abilov was sentenced to five and a half years on trumped up drug charges. Abilov was charged after v...
On 17 October, just a week after the presidential election, the sale of several daily newspapers including the newspaper Azadliq was banned in metro stations in Baku. Azadliq is one of few remaining o...
Rashad Ramazanov, Azerbaijani blogger who criticised the authorities on Facebook and YouTube, was sentenced to nine years in prison on trumped-up drug charges. Ramazanov wrote under the pen name Rasha...
In a joint call issued on the eve of the Presidential election, which takes place on 9 October, 22 human rights organisations and press freedom campaigners warn that the failure of the government of A...
An independent news editor in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to 5 years in prison just before the country’s presidential elections on 9 October. Civil Rights Defenders condemns the sentence against Hil...
In a letter to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and the Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov, several human rights organisations, including Civil Rights Defenders, express their profound concern regard...
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