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Two days before his release, Mammad Ibrahim is placed in solitary confinement
Adviser to the chairman of the opposition Popular Front of Azerbaijan Party (PFAP), Mammad Ibrahim, has been placed in solitary confinement. Two days before his scheduled release from prison, Ibrahim’s family was told that prison guards found a knife...
ECHR ruling: Case of human rights lawyer part of ‘troubling pattern’
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found a number of violations in Azerbaijan’s investigation and detention of well-known human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev. Intigam Aliyev’s case goes back to 2014. In May of that year, Azerbaijan’s...
Opposition youth activist sentenced to 6 years
On 18 September, the Baku Court for Serious Crimes sentenced a member of the youth committee of the opposition Popular Front of Azerbaijan Party (PFAP), Orkhan Bakhishli, to six years in prison. Bakhishli was detained by men in plain clothes in downtown...
Opposition leader’s latest appeal to be heard on 10 August
Ilgar Mammadov’s latest appeal will be heard on 10 August in the city of Shaki. The leader of the Republican Alternative Party (ReAl) was arrested in February 2013 after blogging about riots in the town of Ismayilli. In March 2014 he was sentenced to...
Journalist interrogated again
The editor of Criminal.az has been summoned to the prosecutor’s office again today for questioning. Anar Mammadov has been interrogated repeatedly regarding the recent violence in Ganja. On 3 July, the mayor of Ganja, Elmar Valiyev, and his bodyguard...
Mustafa Hajibayli: Interrogations in Prosecutor’s Office Moral Torture
The editor-in-chief of the website bastainfo.com was again summoned for questioning to the Baku Prosecutor’s Office on July 20, where he was held for three hours. After that he was released, saying that today he will be called again. “Since July 9,...
Media club discussed problems of Azerbaijani media
The media club discussed the main problems of the domestic media in connection with the 143rd anniversary of the National Press Day of Azerbaijan. Members of the Media Club participated in the discussion: Director of the Information Agency turan.az Mehman...
Ombudswoman Asks to Examine Mammad Ibrahim’s Health
Human Rights Commissioner Elmira Suleymanova appealed to the Ministry of Justice with a request to examine the state of health of the convicted adviser to the Chairman of the Popular Front Party Mammad Ibrahim. Turan was informed about this by Mammad...
Torture in Azerbaijan ‘systemic and endemic,’ according to CPT
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published all of its reports about Azerbaijan yesterday along with the Azerbaijani government’s responses. The CPT made six visits...