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10:37 26/05/2016Media reports: Well-known Azerbaijani human rights defenders Leyla and ArifYunus ask for political asylum in NetherlandsWell-known Azerbaijani human rights defenders – director of Institute of Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus and her husband ArifYunus – applied to the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands asking for...
18:17 25/05/2016Azerbaijani media: Famous journalist Khadija Ismayilova conditionally released from prisonHost of RFE/RL Azerbaijani service, Khadija Ismayilova, has been released by the Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court decision, the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty reports.
17:35 19/05/2016CoE Commissioner: Azerbaijani activists, who painted on Heydar Aliyev’s monument, detained on charges lacking credibilityCouncil of Europe's Commissioner on human rights, Nils Muižnieks, condemned the violence of the police in Azerbaijan against young activists Giyas Ibrahimov and Bayram Mammadov, Turan news agency...
10:00 19/05/2016Azerbaijan: Opposition activists hunt goes on – they are threatenedwith rape with batonThe preliminary investigation on PFPA deputy chairman FuadGahramanly’s case under Articles 281 and 283 of the Azerbaijani Criminal Code (Public appeals directed against the state and Excitation of...
18:42 18/05/2016Agents of influence of Turkey and Azerbaijan on trial in StrasbourgThe Criminal Court in Strasbourg continued hearing the case of “Alinca and others” on May 17, which is linked to the “European Information Human Rights Center” organisation, registered in the city.
15:27 18/05/2016800,000 migrants ready to head to EUAn estimated 800,000 migrants are waiting in Libya to cross into Europe and there is an increased possibility that terrorists will try to cross with them, a report by Interpol and Europol says,...
12:52 14/05/2016Azerbaijani civil activists promised to be released if they apologize in front of Heydar Aliyev’s monumentOpposition Musavatpartyissued a statement regarding the young activists BayramMammadov and GiyasIbrahimov’s arrest and criticized the Azerbaijani authorities’ actions.
10:09 14/05/2016The state of Hawaii suing Japanese auto parts maker TakataHawaii is the first state in the US to sue over the air bags, which are blamed for at least 11 deaths worldwide and more than 100 injuries.
14:59 13/05/2016Azerbaijani saboteur and Shushi prisoner Shahbaz Guliyev’s relative engaged in kidnapping under cover of ISElnur Mammadov–a relative of the Azerbaijani saboteur ShahbazGuliyev who entered into the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in 2014 --has been detained on charges of kidnapping and torturing an 8-year-old...
13:16 13/05/2016Ilham Aliyev takes revenge for his father, activists arrested on drug charges for congratulating Heydar Aliyev on “Slavery day”Two young activists of NiDA oppositionmovement, Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov, have been arrested in Azerbaijan on drug charges and denied lawyer access, Turan news agency reports noting that...
11:23 13/05/2016Atrocities committed by Azerbaijani Armed Forces presented to CoE Secretary GeneralThe Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Arman Tatoyan met on May 12 with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland in Strasbourg, Office of the Human Right Defender of...
13:46 10/05/2016Germany knife attacker kills one, wounds three other in a stationOne man has been killed and three others wounded by a knife-wielding man near Munich, BBC reports, adding that the police investigating a possible Islamist connection.
11:46 07/05/2016Turkish journalist imprisoned for publishing footage on Turkey’s state intelligence agency ferrying weapons into SyriaThe prominent Turkish journalist Can Dündar has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, shortly after surviving an attack by a gunman who attempted to shoot him outside a courthouse in...
11:31 06/05/2016Media reports: While Azerbaijan’s first lady is UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, her husband IlhamAliyev jails independent journalistsEminMilli, managing director of OCCRP partner Meydan TV, finds it ironic that Azerbaijan’s First Lady MehribanAliyeva is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador as Khadija Ismayilova receives the UNESCO award...
17:19 04/05/2016Number of complaints submitted to ECHR against Azerbaijan increaseNew complaints have been submitted by a group of lawyers and human rights defendants to the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) against Azerbaijan, concerning constant violations of rights of the...
14:15 03/05/2016Azerbaijani SOCAR CEO’s drunk son appears in Turkish media for his scandalous behaviorRashad Abdullayev, the son of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) CEO RovnagAbdullayev, wasdeprived of driving license and fined for drunk driving, the website of the Azerbaijani...
12:21 03/05/2016Armenia, considered a free country in terms of civic journalism, Samvel Martirosyan saysAccording to evaluations of freedom of the press by NGOs, Armenia is not considered a completely free country, said IT expert, Samvel Martirosyan during a press conference on May 3.
10:52 02/05/2016IREX: Azerbaijani media in horrible plight – mediocre news, journalist ethics violations, censorshipAmerican non-governmental organization IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) published the new annual Media Sustainability Index on Azerbaijan, according to which, the media situation in...
16:25 30/04/2016COE Secretary General urges Azerbaijan to honor its commitments under the ECHRAzerbaijan’s courts have once again disrespected the country’s legal obligation, reads the statement released on April 29 on behalf of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Jagland who...
11:23 30/04/2016Expert: When pressed on its human rights record, Azerbaijani government claims global Armenian conspiracyArzu Geybullayeva was a correspondent for Agos, an Armenian bilingual weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, in 2014 when she faced an ugly campaign from the Azerbaijani government to hurt her...