Azerbaijan

March 19, 2025 23:58

• Azeri analysts assess chance to improve Baku-Moscow relations

  Russia is seeking to normalize relations with Azerbaijan after the AZAL plane crash near Aktau: the decision to install a monument to Geidar Aliev and Valentina Matviyenko's visit to Baku were Russia's initiatives to warm relations up, analysts believe.

March 19, 2025 23:18

• In Azerbaijan, TikToker arrested for distributing footage of armed forces

  The State Security Service of Azerbaijan announced the detention of a TikToker who posted on the Internet a video about the movement of military vehicles of the country’s armed forces.

March 18, 2025 23:33

• Court refuses to investigate torture of Azerbaijani activist Ali Zeynal

  The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has rejected a complaint lodged by activist Ali Zeynal, arrested in the “Toplum TV” case, who requested an investigation into violence by the police.

March 18, 2025 21:49

• Six political migrants charged in absentia in Baku in criminal cases

  Investigators requested six political migrants to return to Azerbaijan in connection with criminal proceedings.

March 15, 2025 23:57

• Yerevan protesters demand UN intervention in fate of prisoners kept in Baku

  In order to defend their own principles, the UN must study the custody conditions of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) kept in Baku and assess their trial, activists in Yerevan have stated.

March 14, 2025 23:56

• Nagorno-Karabakh refugees ask Switzerland for help in returning to their homeland

  At a protest action held in front of the Swiss Embassy in Yerevan, refugees have expressed their hope that the Switzerland’s mediation can help Nagorno-Karabakh people return to their homeland.

March 14, 2025 22:55

• “Abzas Media” journalists achieve humanization of waiting conditions in court

  The journalists arrested in the case against the “Abzas Media” online publication resumed participation in the trial after a three-week break, since their demands regarding the conditions of transportation and detention in court were met.

March 14, 2025 20:40

• ECtHR recognizes violation of media employees’ rights by Azerbaijan

  The European Court of Human Rights has found that the rights of Faig Amirov, the former financial director of the “Azadlig” opposition newspaper, and Aytadj Tapdyg, a “Meydan TV” journalist, have been violated. The European Court has obliged the authorities of Azerbaijan to pay the journalists 14,500 euros in compensation.

March 13, 2025 21:48

• EU and rights defenders criticize verdict to Azerbaijani activist Yagublu

  Tofig Yagublu was convicted of criticizing corruption and human rights violations in Azerbaijan and should be released, like other arrested opposition figures and journalists, representatives of the European Union (EU) and the Amnesty International (AI) have stated.

March 10, 2025 20:33

• CoE adopts resolution on the cases of Khadidja Ismailova

  The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has called on Azerbaijan to protect journalists from attacks, threats and harassment related to their professional work, having adopted a resolution "on a group of Khadidja Ismailova’s cases".

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