Illegal ban on the movement of citizens

The Baku Court on Grave Crimes sentenced human rights defender and election monitor Anar Mammadli to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of financial and other offences. Mammadli denies the charges, while international rights organisations...

In 2025, 784 minors were registered as victims of crime in Azerbaijan. The Child Helpline (116111) received 5,520 appeals that year. These figures show that the system is functioning — but they also raise the real question: in practice, how...

More than 1,000 complaints by Azerbaijani consumers were resolved in their favour in the first five months of 2026, while businesses returned more than 152,000 manats to customers, according to the State Agency for Antimonopoly and Consumer Market...

Amendments to Azerbaijan’s Law on Psychiatric Care have entered into force, providing for the digitalization of psychiatric care records, new grounds for conducting psychiatric examinations without a person’s consent, and additional measures during...