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January 25, 2018 Dispatches

Azerbaijan Courts Convict Two Outspoken Government Critics

The Authorities Should End Crackdown Against Critics, Free Those Wrongly Imprisoned

Gozel Bayramli, deputy chair of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), was detained in one of the protest rallies in April 2011 in capital Baku.
January 18, 2018 News Release

Azerbaijan: Intensified Crackdown

Authorities Stifle Critics, Impede Work of Independent Groups

Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli is brought to the court after he has been abducted in Georgia and forcibly taken to neighboring Azerbaijan where he was detained in custody.
November 27, 2017 Dispatches

Lawyer Disbarred in Azerbaijan After Filing Torture Complaint

Authorities Should Ensure Effective Investigation into All Ill-treatment Allegations

Yalchin Imanov.
November 23, 2017 News Release

EU: Press Azerbaijan on Rights at Summit

Detaining Critics at Odds with Eastern Partnership

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev (L) arrives for a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on February 6, 2017.
November 16, 2017 Dispatches

Another Chance to Right a Wrong in Azerbaijan

European Court Rules in Favor of Ilgar Mammadov

Ilgar Mammadov
November 9, 2017 Letter

Joint NGO Letter on Human Rights in Azerbaijan on the eve of the Eastern Partnership Summit

October 25, 2017 Commentary

Europe Should Unite To Face Down Azerbaijan’s Defiance

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe meets in Strasbourg, France, October 2017.
October 20, 2017 Dispatches

Azerbaijan Gets US$500 Million Loan for Gas Transportation

Missed Opportunity to Affect Much Needed Reforms

October 11, 2017 Dispatches

Azerbaijan’s Abysmal Rights Record Under Scrutiny

Council of Europe Urges Azerbaijan to Start Overdue Reforms

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe meets in Strasbourg, France, October 2017.
October 5, 2017 UPR

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Azerbaijan

30th session of the UPR; 3rd cycle

A protestor holds a sign calling for the release of unjustly imprisoned youth activists.  Baku, September 18, 2016.
October 3, 2017 Report

Azerbaijan: Anti-Gay Crackdown

Gay Men, Transgender Women Tortured to Extort Money, Intelligence

Isa Shahmarly, former chair of the Free (Azad) LGBT group, whose experience as a gay man in Azerbaijan, drove him to suicide. In September 2017, police in Azerbaijan started a violent campaign, arresting and torturing men presumed to be gay or bisexual, a
September 29, 2017 Dispatches

Familiar Rhetoric of Anti-gay Raids in Azerbaijan

Officials Claim Gay Men Also Forcibly Tested for HIV, Syphilis

General view shows central Baku, Azerbaijan, June 23, 2016.
September 26, 2017 Dispatches

Azerbaijan Faces Legal Action for Defying European Court

Government should Release Ilgar Mammadov, Other Unjustly Imprisoned Activists

Ilgar Mammadov
August 25, 2017 News Release

Azerbaijan: Independent News Director Jailed

Free Mehman Aliyev

detention aliyev
August 17, 2017 Dispatches

Azerbaijan’s Last-standing Independent News Agency Facing Closure

Bogus Tax Investigation Threatens to Close Turan News Agency

Journalists at Turan News Agency in Azerbaijan while tax police raided their office earlier this month.

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