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Baku/28.07.23/Turan: The Institute of Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has condemned the Azerbaijani authorities for the arbitrary and politically motivated arrest of the well-known anti-corruption expert Gubad Ibadoglu and called for his immediate release.
Professor of Economy Dr. Gubad Ibadoglu, a brave critic of kleptocracy and nepotism, was detained on July 23 in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, shortly after returning from a two-year tenure as a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics in the UK. In May 2020, he launched the YouTube channel BİZ TV, where he, along with other experts, daily exposed Azerbaijan's socio-economic problems and criticized the issues with inefficient public administration. Additionally, since 2018, Ibadoglu has been an expert at the independent news agency Turan, contributing monthly analytical reviews on problems in Azerbaijan's economy.
He also played a leading role in the opposition "Azerbaijan Party of Democracy and Welfare."
Shortly before returning to Azerbaijan, Ibadoglu, together with his associates, established the Azerbaijani Youth Education Foundation in London, which was supposed to return assets stolen through corruption and send them to support civil initiatives in order to train abroad representatives of Azerbaijani youth.
“I am sure that it was this new anti-corruption initiative on returning assets the political elite stole and accumulated in the West that became the main reason for his politically motivated persecution,” said Emin Huseynov, Executive Director of the IRFS.
Having carefully studied the gross violent circumstances of the detention, accompanied by unjustified violence and inhuman treatment, the presentation of absurd charges of selling counterfeit foreign currency as part of an organized group, the IRFS came to the primary convincing conclusion about the complete fabrication and political motivation of Gubadoglu's arrest.
The IRFS believes that by their illegal actions against Gubad Ibadoglu, the Azerbaijani authorities have grossly violated the European Convention on Human Rights, and therefore calls on the heads of the structures of the Council of Europe to condemn the arbitrary repressive actions of the authorities and demand from them his immediate release.—06B-
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