Azerbaijan – Human Rights

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Press Release COPENHAGEN, 26 February 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, [more >>>]

By OWEN GIBSON The Guardian The British Olympic Association has admitted that organisers of the first European Games in Baku, under attack from human rights [more >>>]

Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights Today, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, published written observations submitted to the European [more >>>]

Human Rights Watch (Brussels) – The European Union special representative for human rights should use his visit to Azerbaijan beginning February 23, 2015, to insist [more >>>]

By MICHAEL WEISS* Foreign Policy A press freedom advocate — and husband of an American servicewoman — went to the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan, fearing [more >>>]

Azadliq Radiosu RFE/RL Azadliq Radiosu: You have been in Strasbourg last week talking about your parents. What is it that you are asking for? Dinara [more >>>]

By ARZU GEYBULLAYEVA Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso The right to freedom of expression and association was repeatedly violated in Azerbaijan in the course of 2014. [more >>>]

Reporters Without Borders The latest victim of the crackdown that the authorities began last summer is the well-known journalist Seymour Khazi, who was sentenced to [more >>>]

By NARGIZ RASHID Eurasianet.org The media climate is growing so grim in Azerbaijan that some observers are reminded of an old Soviet-era adage that just [more >>>]