The adviser to the chairman of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), Mammad Ibrahim, was released from prison after more than three years behind bars. Ibrahim was arrested on charges of hooliganism in September 2015 and convicted in March 2016 in a trial that human rights activists have called politically motivated. Originally scheduled for…
In October 2017, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved a $500 million loan for the Azerbaijani-led TANAP pipeline, despite allegations of high-level corruption in the framework of the Azerbaijani Laundromat. On 16 January 2019, the EBRD invited representatives of civil society to participate in the review process of the bank’s country strategy…
Article by Arzu Geybulla On January 7th 2019,VirtualRoad, the secure hosting project of the Qurium – Media Foundation published[1] a report documenting fresh attacks against Azerbaijan’s oldest opposition newspaper Azadliq’s website (azadliq.info). The report concluded: “After ten months trying to keep azadliq.info online inside Azerbaijan using our Bifrost service[2] and bypassing multi-million dollars DPI deployments,…
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Sir Roger Gale (United Kingdom, EC) and Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) have expressed their deep concern at the new charges brought against an anti-corruption Azerbaijani blogger and Chairman of the Institute for Reporters` Freedom and Safety (IRFS), Mehman…
By No Political Prisoners Azerbaijan seems to be truly contending for the title of one of most repressive governments in post-Soviet space. It has an authoritarian government with an abysmal human rights record, including no elections deemed free and fair, no right to protest, heavily controlled media, the complete lack of political freedom and the…
New criminal charges brought against the imprisoned reporter and blogger Mehman Huseynov just weeks before his release date are a cruel step by Azerbaijani authorities to punish him for his critical journalism, PEN America said in a statement today. Huseynov, a popular Azerbaijani blogger and journalist known for his hard-hitting exposés of alleged corruption by…
Statement of Azerbaijani National Platform of Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Baku, 02 January, 2019 We, the undersigining members of Azerbaijan National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum condemn the new criminal case initiated by the penitentiary against the imprisoned blogger Mehman Huseynov on the article 315.2 (Resistance or application of violence concerning…
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PRESS-RELEASE , March 22, 2018 The Working Group (WG) on Unified List of Political Prisoners in…
