UN Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture visit to Azerbaijan suspended
By HUMAN RIGHTS HOUSE FOUNDATION (HRHF) & ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE (APT) Human Rights House In an unprecedented move, the United Nations monitoring [more >>>]
Month: September 2014
Open letter to PACE President from Azerbaijani civil society
humanrightsaz.wordpress.com Azerbaijan’s civil society open letter to PACE President Anne Brasseur Silence is not an option First Anar Mammadli, then Leyla Yunus, now Rasul Jafarov [more >>>]
Azerbaijan’s Opinion-Shaping Campaign Reaches ‘The New York Times’
By ROBERT COALSON RFE/RL Earlier this month, “The New York Times” published documents demonstrating Azerbaijan’s efforts to expand its relationship with think tanks in the [more >>>]
The ugliness under Azerbaijan’s alternate reality
By PADRAIG REIDY Index on Censorship On 5 September, Azerbaijaini president Ilham Aliyev addressed the Nato summit at the Celtic Manor golf resort in Newport, [more >>>]
Five things you need to know before visiting Azerbaijan
By JODIE GINSBERG Index on Censorship London-based daily newspaper Metro ran a feature this month extolling the delights of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The [more >>>]
SOCAR Oil Deal Benefits Hidden Investors Linked to … SOCAR?
By NUSHABE FATULLAYEVA and KHALID KAZIMOV Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Etibar Kovsarov was one of 200 Azerbaijani oil workers who lost their [more >>>]
Armenian Maneuvers
By THOMAS DE WAAL Carnegie Moscow Center Those who want to see the Caucasus as a tidy geopolitical chessboard will be disappointed. Despite evident Russian [more >>>]
Unquiet Peace Holds on Azeri-Armenian Lines
By YEKATERINA POGHOSYAN, VAHE HARUTIUNYAN Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) Russian leader’s solo mediation attempt seems to have worked The alarming summer surge [more >>>]
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov’s Men: News Report Reveals Lobbying Scheme of Aliyev Regime in the US
Azeri Report WASHINGTON DC. September 8, 2014: The New York Times published “Azerbaijan and Think Tanks“, a journalist investigation, reporting about the Azerbaijani Embassy’s lobbying [more >>>]
Barriers to Resolving Nagorno-Karabakh
By EDUARDO LORENZO OCHOA (*) New Eastern Europe The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was back on the front pages of the international press this summer after a [more >>>]