Azerbaijan

June 04, 2025 15:51

• Nagorno-Karabakh parliament not decided on presidential candidates

  The factions of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh have not nominated a single candidate for the presidency of the unrecognized republic three weeks after the termination of the Samvel Shakhramanyan’s powers.

June 04, 2025 00:00

• Baku activists accuse law enforcers of cruel treatment

  Several dozen people were detained in Baku at the action with a demand an investigation into the death of a 17-year-old resident of Ganja. After the detention, they reported law enforcers’ pressure, accusing them of cruel treatment and sexual harassment.

June 01, 2025 17:28

• Baku court extends arrest of human rights defender Safarov

  The arrest of Rufat Safarov, an Azeri human rights defender, accused of fraud, has been extended for other 20 days.

May 30, 2025 18:02

• Book about refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh presented in Yerevan

  More than a hundred stories of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are collected in the book entitled “Artsakh: Blockade and Forced Displacement in Human Stories”. The facts presented in the book should become evidence in international courts, journalists claim.

May 29, 2025 14:00

• Russian MFA comments on extradition of Zakhireddin Ibragimov to Baku

  Zakhireddin Ibragimov, the chairman of the committee for the protection of the rights of ethnic minorities, who was brought to Azerbaijan, was previously deprived of the Russian citizenship, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian reported.

May 26, 2025 18:37

• Law enforcers ban Russian activist from leaving Armenia

  Mark Serov, an activist from the city of Kazan, who lives in Georgia, was detained at the Armenian-Georgian border. After that, he was released under the recognizance not to leave the place; he cannot leave Armenia; in Russia, he is wanted within a case of vandalism motivated by political hatred.

May 24, 2025 18:32

• Armenian citizen hospitalized from Baku prison after his hunger strike

  Lebanese Armenian Vigen Euldjekyan, arrested by Azerbaijani militaries in Nagorno-Karabakh and sentenced in Baku to twenty years of imprisonment, held a hunger strike in prison and was hospitalized.

May 23, 2025 14:59

• New speaker of Nagorno-Karabakh parliament elected

  Ashot Danielyan, a member of the “Svobodnaya Rodina” (Free Homeland) faction, has been elected speaker of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, and his candidacy has been supported by all five factions of the parliament.

May 22, 2025 18:21

• PFPA leader treats arrest of two activists as political persecution

  Novruz Tagiev, a bodyguard of the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has been arrested within a criminal case; another PFPA activist, Rashad Aliev, has been sentenced to 25 days of administrative arrest.

May 22, 2025 13:40

• Iranian citizen executed for attacking Azerbaijani Embassy

  Iran has executed the death penalty for Yasin Guseinzade, convicted of attacking the Embassy of Azerbaijan.

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