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Police detained those involved in the action in defense of Saleh Rustamov who has been on hunger strike for 40 days demanding his release from jail. The action had been…

On December 1, elevan officers of the Azerbaijani Border Troops who died on November 30 in the MI-17 helicopter crash were buried in the Second Martyrs’ Alley. Three more victims…

Health conditions of the former head of the Gedabey region executive power Saleh Rustamov who has been on hunger strike for 17 days, goes on deteriorating, according to his lawyer…

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your intervention in the…

Great Britain calls on Azerbaijan to join the Istanbul Convention,  reads the  statement of the  British embassy in Baku. “We were disturbed to hear of the murder of Sevinj Maharramova…

A group of feminists held a protest action in front of the Khazar district police department on August 4. They were holding posters “Killer Sevinj is the state!” and doused…

Razi Gumbatov, an activist of the Muslim Unity Movement (MUM), currently in custody, said that he was tortured during his six-day detention in the Main Department for Combating Organized Crime…

The organization in defense of press freedom “Reporters without Borders” is outraged by the fact that 200 journalists from 20 countries are being spied on with the help of the…

Mother of the well-known  political figure and former prisoner Tofig Yagublu who lived in Georgia has died. However, he has not been released from Azerbaijan to attend the funeral. The…

During the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the International Foundation for Human Rights raised the deterioration of the situation for lawyers in Azerbaijan and Belarus. An organization’s…