On 23 January 2013 in Ismayilly District centre of Azerbaijan occurred mass disorders, which had turned into a protest action demanding the resignation of Nizami Alekberov, a head of Executive authority of the District. More than 60 men were arrested in result of the protest. Special police units and internal troops then applied the teargas […]
Court proceedings have begun on a new criminal case of a former minister of health of Azerbaijan Ali Insanov. Defence stated to court on falsification of proofs, and A. Insanov called the case as political one. According to “Kavkazsky uzel”, Ali Insanov, who worked as a minister of the health of Azerbaijan since 1993, and […]
According to “Kavkazsky uzel”, Azerbaijani Centre for Monitoring of Political Prisoners set up a prize “Human rights defender of Year”. On the results of 2016 the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus became its first laureate. On 13 August 2015 Leyla Yunus was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison, and her […]
The Supreme Court did not satisfy the cassation appeal of Ilgar Mammadov, a leader of the ReAl Movement, in the complaint against the Sheki Court of Appeal. According to haqqin.az the Supreme Court kept in force the decision of the Sheki Court of Appeal. As it known, on 17 March 2013 the Sheki Court on […]
Today, in Tbilisi, a capital of Georgia, has started 13 Southern Caucasian Media Conference of the OSCE, where participate the journalists and representatives of state structures of the three south-Caucasian states – Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The topic of the conference is “Variety of challenges to freedom of mass media and freedom of opinion expression”. […]
Being released from custody, Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Khadija Ismayilova said in an interview to the Azerbaijani service of BBC that the authorities made a mistake when imprisoned her, and had to be released her. Khadija Ismayilova was in custody for one and half year and was released on 25 May. The Supreme […]
On 28 March 2016 the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan ruled to release a human rights activist Intigam Aliyev, being replaced a sentence to seven years and six months of imprisonment into five years conditional one. Intigam Aliyev is a head of “Society for legal enlightenment”, human rights organisation that provides a legal aid to people […]
On 9 December 2015 the Baku Court of Appeal changed the real deprivation of freedom of Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus into the conditional one. Leyla Islam gyzy Yunus (Yunusova) is an Azerbaijani human rights defender, founder of Azerbaijani NGO “Institute for Peace and Democracy”. On 30 July detained in Baku, she is charged number […]
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