The lawyer Aslan Ismaylov was threatened with physical harm at the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) at the Interior Ministry if he did not stop criticizing Interior Minister Ramil Usubov. Turan was told by Ismaylov, he was in the Narimanov district prosecutor office on the murder of a cardiologist as a representative of […]
A former Rapporteur of PACE on Azerbaijan, acting member of PACE Andreas Gross in his interview to the Radio “Azadlig” (“Liberty”) expressed an opinion in respect of currently situation in Azerbaijan, and remembered some episodes his activity in a position of the Rapporteur of PACE on Azerbaijan, informs site www.haqqin.az A. Gross expressed his anxiety […]
US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Morningstar made a statement today: “The Government of Azerbaijan has informed us that issues relating to the National Democratic Institute (NDI) have been resolved. NDI will continue to work in Azerbaijan to help develop civil society”, – reads the statement. To recall, Azeri authorities accused NDI in preparing of coloured […]
The Attorney General’s Office has completed an investigation of executive Arzu Kazymov – one of the defendants in the controversial case centering on video of the former Rector of the Azerbaijan International University (AIU) Elshad Abdullayev. On one of the videos, talks between Kazymov and Abdullayev were recorded, wherein they discuss the issue of the […]
On June 3 at 10.00, the Sabail court will examine a claim for defamation. The lawsuit was submitted by a playwright and social activist Rustam Ibrahimbekov, informed to Turan agency a lawyer of the plaintiff Fuad Agayev. The basis for the claim was an interview with Ali Hasanov by the APA agency APA, in which […]
At the session of the UN Council on Human Rights in Geneva on 27-31 May Azerbaijan was criticized due to violations of the freedom of assembly and association. According to the Election Monitoring and Democratic Studies Center (EMDS) Anar Mammadov, international human rights organizations have expressed concern about the violation of political freedoms in Azerbaijan. […]
In Azerbaijan, there is no independent judiciary, and judges defend only the power. Instead, the authorities give them an opportunity to earn money, take bribes. Serious reforms are necessary which the power is not going to carry out. Journalists, political activists, and dissented people are arrested and charged every day for crimes related to drugs, […]
The Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) made a statement in connection with the beginning of a two-day US-Azerbaijani forum in Baku. Its work involves more than 50 U.S. politicians, including senators and congressmen. American politicians, instead of showing solidarity with civil society in Azerbaijan and the principles of democracy, are involved in a […]
The Narimnanov District Court presided over by the judge Mazahir Sadykhov is coming to end a court process in the case over a group of believers who were arrested for taking part in a protest in defense of the hijab on October 5, 2012. According to the lawyer Anar Gasymly, 29 May, 2013 the prosecutor […]
