Human rights
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By October 1, 2023, 100,514 Armenians who moved to Armenia from Karabakh had left Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan builds houses for returning former residents of the region, but these works are mainly conducte...
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On November 20 last year, arrests began in the case of «AbzasMedia», known for its investigations of corruption. Earlier, the site's director Ulvi Hasanli, deputy director Muhammad Kekalov, and editor...
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The Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudswoman) of Azerbaijan, Sabina Aliyeva, presented to the Milli Majlis an annual report on the protection of human rights in the country in 2023. It turned out th...
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In recent days, social media platforms have become the stage for a disturbing spectacle of peer violence against a teenage girl in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia announced on February 16 that Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition leader, died in a correctional colony located in the village of Harp in the Yamal...
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The rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) have recently become the subject of public discussion. The insignificance of compensations and fees for the services of lawyers in court decisi...
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In a landmark decision, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passed resolution No. 15898 during its January 24 session, temporarily revoking the voting rights of the Azerbaijani...
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Those arrested in connection with AbzasMedia - director Ulvi Hasanli, editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi (Abbasova), journalists Nargiz Absalamova and Hafiz Babali, as well as their relatives and those...
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Over the past month, many journalists, political and public activists have been arrested in the country.
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December 10 is International Human Rights Day. Traditionally, this year, as every year, we had a conversation with a human rights defender to find out about the situation of human rights in Azerbaijan...
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The human rights organization "Line of Protection" has published a report on the state of human rights in Azerbaijan for June, July and August 2023. The co-founder of the human rights organization "Li...
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Azerbaijan frequently garners unfavorable attention in the annual human rights reports of international organizations due to the alarming prevalence of human rights violations, political violence, and...
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After the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected in May of this year a complaint about the violation of the rights of human rights defender Ogtay Gulalyev, the concern of members of civil soci...
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On June 22, based on the request of the investigative body, the Khatai District Court of Baku, the measure of restraint for human rights defender Bakhtiar Hajiyev for another month, until July 28. The...
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Video footage of the beating of a 7-year-old child by his coach during a workout in the gym of school No. 19 in the village of Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev in Sumgait caused public anger and caused widesp...
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The US State Department has published its annual report on Human Rights. The part of the report concerning Azerbaijan says:"Illegal, unauthorized killings, torture, other cruel, inhuman, degrading act...