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...