Azerbaijan

Human rights organizations are calling on INTERPOL to prevent the misuse of its alert system against prominent Azerbaijani human rights defenders Leyla Yunusova and Arif Yunusov. 

Today three years have passed since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment on the case of political prisoner Ilgar Mammadov, concluding that the Azerbaijani authorities had detained him to punish him for his criticism of the government.

A new report, “European Values Bought and Sold: An exploration into Azerbaijan’s sophisticated system of projecting its international influence, buying Western politicians and capturing intergovernmental organisations” has been produced by Freedom Files Analytical Centre with support of t

AN OPEN LETTER BY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS TO PACE

Members of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately release and drop the criminal case against Natig Jafarli of the Republican Alternative Movement (ReAl), the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) said.

Members of the Civic Solidarity Platform are extremely relieved that our colleague Rasul Jafarov and 13 other individuals unfairly and unjustly imprisoned in Azerbaijan have been pardoned, allowing them to be released and reunite with their families and loved ones.

Members of the Civic Solidarity Platform and the Sports For Rights Campaign were relieved to learn that one of Azerbaijan’s most well-known political prisoners, Leyla Yunus, was released from detention yesterday and that the Baku City Court of Appeal changed her sentence and that of her h