Art for Democracy: Artistic freedom of expression in Azerbaijan
By MELODY PATRY Index on Censorship As Azerbaijan is about to assume the Chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, a new report [more >>>]
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UN expert urges Azerbaijan to drop charges against human rights defenders
UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner 9 May 2014 – Three human rights defenders facing 12 years in prison for charges brought against [more >>>]
Azerbaijani Government Sending North Korea-Style Message to Pro-Democracy Community of Azerbaijan
Azeri Report BAKU. May 9, 2014: Young man on the photo is Dashgin Malikov and he is bowing to the grave/statue of Heydar Aliyev, the [more >>>]
U.S. Helsinki Commission Criticizes Attack on Civil Society in Azerbaijan
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) (Washington, DC)—In response to today’s sentencing of eight youth activists associated with NIDA in Azerbaijan, [more >>>]
Azerbaijan to chair Council of Europe amid climate of fear and suppression
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Azerbaijan’s human rights situation remains dire as it gears up to assume the six-month chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: Stop Harassing Rights Defender
Human Rights Watch Hollande, Council of Europe Leadership Should Speak Out (Berlin) – Azerbaijani authorities are harassing and engaging in oppressive tactics against a prominent [more >>>]
Freedom of expression, assembly and association deteriorating in Azerbaijan
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights releases his observations on the human rights situation in the country Strasbourg, 23 April 2014 – “Freedom of [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: The United Nations find the detention of Hilal Mammadov arbitrary; immediate release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, March 27, 2014. FIDH and OMCT, in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, welcome the opinion rendered by [more >>>]
Two Prominent Azerbaijani Oppositionists Sentenced On Fabricated Charges
RFE/RL – An Azerbaijani regional court handed down prison terms on March 17 to two prominent opposition politicians for having simply been in the wrong [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: concern at announcement of jail sentence on two opposition politicians
Strasbourg, 21.03.2014 – Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, [more >>>]