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Activity of the blog of Kamran Rustamov has been suspended on the technical reasons.

Today contact.az has published an article of Kamal Ali the following content: “The Audit Chamber, if wish, enable to find abuses of corruption in any Azerbaijani state institution. There is no one, in operation of which the citizens would have sent complaints, and journalists prepared exposing publications. There is no case of conducting the investigative […]

In production of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan Republic has been filed a cassation appeal of Jafarov Ali Shabanali oglu, detention of which amazes with numerous facts about tortures, falsifications of evidences, forgeries and other abuses that committed by employees of law enforcement bodies and courts. On 22 February 2015 at 5.13 a.m. the police […]

There were no protest actions in the center of the capital for a long time. The uncoordinated actions held in 2013 uncoordinated with the authorities were against the massive deaths of soldiers. After that, the opposition preferred to conduct the Baku City authorities at the Mehsul Stadium. However, the other day a group of members […]

Serious problems have arisen with the health of the youth activist Bayram Mammadov imprisoned in prison no. 13. As his father Farman Mammadov told Turan IA, for several days Bayram has had a high temperature of 39 degrees. He has been vomiting, and injections do not help lower the temperature. His sleeping place is in […]

The Political Prisoners Defense Center of Azerbaijan has updated the list of political prisoners, which is published on the website www.contact.az. One of the co-founders of the Center, human rights defender Leila Yunus, in an interview with Turan, said: “Last time we updated it on July 27 and found that there are at least 164 […]

Doctors diagnosed the imprisoned journalist Afgan Mukhtarly with gastritis in the Baku prison. Azadlig Radio was informed by his lawyer Zibeyda Sadigova who met with her client in the Baku Detention Center on July 28. Mukhtarly also has a heart problem – the heart rate is higher than normal, the lawyer said, adding that he […]

Azerbaijani Centre for Defence of Political Prisoners updated the list of political prisoners, it has been added four new arrested persons and excluded one dead in the Investigative cell. According to human rights activists, the total number of political prisoners in the list is 165 men. The cases of pressure into Azerbaijani activists in Georgia […]

  DELFI.lt website published an article of Konstantin Amelyushkin the following content: “Sunny Azerbaijan known with its pomegranates, bright culture, oil and… political prisoners. Azerbaijan takes a specific niche in foreign policy. From one side, the country-participant of the European programme ‘Eastern partnership’, one of the active advocates of which is Lithuania. Other side, Azerbaijan […]

On 18 May 2017 the FIDH disseminated the following address: “The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Azerbaijan. New information: The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources […]