Politics - 2024
-
As part of the OSCE Foreign Ministerial Council meeting in Malta today, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with civil society representatives from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uk...
-
The Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Mounir Satouri, has called on Azerbaijan’s authorities to lift travel restrictions on Professor Qubad Ibadoghlu, currently under ho...
-
The Separate Combined Arms Army (stationed in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic) conducted command-staff exercises.
-
The Council today decided to prolong and update the list of individuals, entities, and bodies subject to restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses, for a further year unt...
-
On Thursday, the trial in the case of economist Fazil Gasimov continued at the Baku Court for Serious Crimes. During the session, the indictment was read out. However, before the prosecutor's statemen...
-
During the trial of former deputy and businessman Huseyn Abdullayev on Thursday, the prosecutor delivered their closing statement. Abdullayev himself joined the proceedings via video link from a pret...
-
The PACE General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), and General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zinger...
-
The Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan has approved amendments to the list of blood service institutions engaged in the collection, processing, storage, and distribution of blood and its components, a...
-
The 'Abzas Media' trial will begin on 17 December at the Baku Serious Crimes Court, presided over by Rasim Sadykhov.
-
The Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has approved amendments to its official list of vital infrastructure to be protected, significantly expanding the scope of safeguarded facilities under the country...
-
A key U.S. senator on Wednesday urged Azerbaijan to release veteran human rights advocate, Rufat Safarov, 'immediately,' TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
-
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated Wednesday that the country was preparing to impose more sanctions on Georgian Dream as he denounced Georgia's ruling party's "brutal and unjustified vi...
-
The family of human rights defender Rufat Safarov refuted false information spread in some pro-government media aimed at discrediting him.
-
In his address to the Second International Conference on Western Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev highlighted the large-scale displacement experienced by Azerbaijanis throughout the 20th century. He...
-
On December 5, over 100 delegates from 51 countries gathered in Azerbaijan's capital for the Second International Conference on the Western Azerbaijan Community. The two-day event, titled "The Right t...
-
Reacting to the arrest of Azerbaijani human rights defender Rufat Safarov, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International's Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said:















