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Azerbaijan: Authorities using smear campaign to silence women activists - new briefingPress release 12 May 2021 -
Azerbaijan / Armenia: Scores of civilians were killed in 'indiscriminate' attacks - new reportOn-the-ground investigation into dozens of attacks, including with cluster munitions
Press release 14 Jan 2021 -
Armenia/Azerbaijan: Decapitation and war crimes in gruesome videos must be urgently investigated‘The depravity and lack of humanity captured in these videos shows the deliberate intention to cause ultimate harm and humiliation to victims’ - Denis Krivosheev
Press release 10 Dec 2020 -
Armenia/Azerbaijan: First confirmed use of cluster munitions by Armenia 'cruel and reckless'‘The firing of cluster munitions into civilian areas is cruel and reckless, and causes untold death, injury and misery’ - Marie Struthers
Press release 29 Oct 2020 -
Armenia/Azerbaijan: Use of artillery salvos and ballistic missiles in populated areas must stop immediately'The evidence of the use of ballistic missiles and other explosive weapons with wide-area effects in civilian neighbourhoods tells a story of shocking disregard for life and the laws of war' - Denis Krivosheev
Press release 20 Oct 2020 -
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Governments must stop abusing emergency powers during COVID-19 pandemicAuthorities in Kazakhstan have welded apartment doors shut to trap residents inside, while Chechen police have assaulted people for not wearing facemasks
Press release 29 Apr 2020 -
Azerbaijan: Baku hosts Europa League Final as government crackdown continues“We must ensure that Azerbaijan isn’t allowed to ‘sportswash’ its appalling human rights record as a result of the football fanfare” – Kate Allen
Press release 22 May 2019 -
Urgent Action outcome: Activist released after being rearrested
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was released on 29 April after 30 days in administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 09 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Activist rearrested on fabricated charges
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was detained on 30 March and sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Apr 2019 -
Urgent Action good news: Prisoner of conscience released
Azerbaijani prominent blogger Mehman Huseynov was released on 2 March.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Mar 2019 -
Azerbaijan: European Court win for journalist who faced sex-tape ordeal‘Khadija is one of many journalists and activists who have been targeted as part of the Azerbaijani government’s ruthless crackdown on dissent’ - Levan Asatiani
Press release 10 Jan 2019 -
Urgent Action update: New charges against prisoner of conscience
Azerbaijani authorities brought new criminal charges against prisoner of conscience Mehman Huseynov.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jan 2019 -
Urgent Action good news: Supreme Court orders journalist's release in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of Aziz Orujov, an independent journalist and CEO of channel Canal 13.
Urgent action outcomes 08 May 2018 -
Urgent Action: Azeri activist conscripted despite ill-health in Azerbaijan
Ulvi Hasanli was exempted from military service until 2019, however late in October the decision was reversed
Urgent action outcomes 09 Feb 2018 -
Sentenced journalist latest victim of Azerbaijan’s ‘repressive apparatus of fear’Journalist Afgan Mukhtarli was sentenced to six years in prison today.
Press release 12 Jan 2018 -
Azerbaijan: Freedom for those targeted in LGBTI crackdownIn September 2017, more than 100 people suspected of being gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans were rounded up by Azerbaijani police in Baku in a deliberate attempt to intimidate. After global pressure, all those detained were released finally released.
13 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: All LGBTI people detained in mass raids in Azerbaijan released
All LGBTI persons detained during the raids carried out across Baku on 23 September have been released.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Mass Raid and Detention of LGBTI People in Azerbaijan
On 22 September, Azerbaijani police conducted raids on LGBTI individuals in Baku, detaining more than 100 people
Urgent action outcomes 29 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Independent news director detained in Azerbaijan
Mehman Aliyev, the director of independent news agency Turan, has been arbitrarily detained since 24 August on what appears to be trumped up charges of tax evasion and other offenses in retaliation for his work as a critical journalist.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained journalist faints in overheated prison in Azerbaijan
Independent Azerbaijani journalist Aziz Orujov has been held in detention on fabricated charges since 2 May. He is being kept in inhumane conditions. On 23 July he fainted as a result of the sweltering heat in the prison cell.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017
