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Azerbaijan: Authorities Must Ensure Fair Trial Rights of Ruben Vardanyan and Investigate Claims of Rights Violations

Authorities must uphold and ensure the fair trial rights of Ruben Vardanyan.

January 17, 2025

23 November 2024, Azerbaijan, Baku: Climate activists demonstrate on the grounds of the UN climate summit COP29. Photo: Torsten Holtz/dpa (Photo by Torsten Holtz/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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On Human Rights, COP29 was Doomed from the Start

Without adequate protections for civil society organizations and human rights defenders at COP29, key voices were left out of the…

December 12, 2024

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Azerbaijan: Authorities Must Immediately Release Human Rights Defender Rufat Safarov

The arrest of Rufat Safarov on trumped-up fraud and hooliganism charges is another glaring example of the Azerbaijani authorities’ relentless…

December 4, 2024

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COP29: States Must Press Azerbaijani Authorities to End Assault on Civil Society

Azerbaijan is hosting an international conference on climate justice while actively undermining the main pillars of climate activism – repressing…

October 8, 2024

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France/Azerbaijan: Killing of President Aliyev’s critic exposes failures to protect exiled activists

The violent death of Vidadi Isgandarli must be effectively and promptly investigated.

October 2, 2024

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Azerbaijan: A decade in jail for graffiti activist is a shameless attempt to stifle criticism

A 10-year jail sentence handed by the Baku Court of Grave Crimes in Azerbaijan to Bayram Mammadov, a youth activist…

December 8, 2016

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Azerbaijan: Ten years in jail for youth activist who sprayed graffiti is a travesty of justice

A 10-year jail sentence handed to Giyas Ibrahimov, a 22-year-old youth activist detained after spraying graffiti on a statue of…

October 26, 2016

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Azerbaijan: Assaults on freedom of expression mar constitutional referendum

Threats, arrests and prosecutions of those who have voiced criticism of the proposed amendments to the Constitution have been a…

September 23, 2016

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Azerbaijan: Human rights record still not roadworthy as Formula 1 hits Baku

The international community must not be duped by surface-level efforts to smooth out Azerbaijan’s human rights record, which remains dire,…

June 16, 2016

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Journalist Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan free but conviction must be quashed

The release of Khadija Ismayilova by Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court is a welcome step but she will not have obtained justice…

May 25, 2016

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Azerbaijan releases human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev

The Azerbaijani authorities today released prominent human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev in what Amnesty International billed an overdue step towards…

March 28, 2016

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Azerbaijan: Release of 10 prisoners of conscience is a glimmer of hope for those still behind bars

Azerbaijan’s embattled civil society received a rare glimmer of hope today as President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree ordering the…

March 17, 2016