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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...
Lawyer Emin Aslan Forbidden to Leave Azerbaijan
Lawyer Emin Aslan (Aslanov) has been banned from leaving the country. The restriction was introduced after his serving of an administrative punishment in the form of 30-day arrest, as his relatives told Turan. According to them, the day before Aslan intended...
Media continue to lose influence, Mehman Aliyev
The situation in the Azerbaijani media is getting worse, stated the director of the Turan news agency Mehman Aliyev on the eve of the National Press Day, which was celebrated on July 22. In his view, negative trends have intensified over the past year. Media...
Journalists interrogated in the prosecutor’s office
The employees of the site bastainfo.com Rufat Bakhishbeyli, Kenul Ali, and deputy chairman of the youth organization of the Musavat party were questioned on July 14 as witnesses in the Baku city prosecutor’s office, according to the “Musavat” party....