The World Movement is concerned to learn about the widespread repressive actions taken by the Azerbaijani government in response to peaceful protests on October 19-20, 2019. These measures include arbitrary arrests, police brutality, and an internet and mobile shutdown. Such actions show the government’s flagrant disregard for its citizens’ basic human rights, including the right…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is bringing a case against the Azerbaijan government for blocking four independent media organizations’ websites, which have been inaccessible since March 27, 2017. The affected media organizations are Meydan TV, Azadliq, Azerbaycan Saati and Turan TV. The government instituted the blocks with the allegation that they contain prohibited material that calls for…
Over the past year, Azerbaijan has experienced 57 politically motivated court trials, an increase over the previous annual reporting period, according to a report released on September 14, 2019, by the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS). Civil society organizations in Azerbaijan have long urgently called for reform of the judiciary, but this report…
Azerbaijan On January 22, 2019, the government of Azerbaijan dropped charges brought against anticorruption blogger and political prisoner Mehman Huseynov due to tremendous international pressure. For over three weeks, Mehman undertook a hunger strike in protest of the unfounded charges. In solidarity, a number of #SetThemFree political prisoners joined the hunger strike including: Khadija Ismayilova,…