Azerbaijan News News Azerbaijan » Government: In Presidential Election, Azerbaijan's Government Makes It Clear There Is No Alternative
At a debate held before Azerbaijan's February 7 presidential election, the viewer could be forgiven for not being sure who was supporting the incumbent and who represented the opposition. "President ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov’t Is Using COP29 as Chance to “Enrich the Regime”
In Baku, Azerbaijan, Democracy Now! continues our coverage of the 2024 U.N. climate summit and its host country’s record on human rights. “Considering that our economy is completely relying on oil and ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: Crackdown in Azerbaijan: COP29 Host Country Arrests Climate Activists & Journalists Ahead of Talks
As we broadcast this week from the U.N. climate talks in Baku, human rights groups have warned of Azerbaijan’s escalating crackdown on civil society groups, government critics and the press. Since the ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: How Azerbaijan is 'peacewashing' its image ahead of COP 29
A year ago, Azerbaijan attacked and took control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region — a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan — displacing more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians in a violent ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: Pope Leo urged to push for release of Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan
A delegation from Save Armenia looks at a sign showing the 23 Armenian hostages held by the Azerbaijan government in Baku outside of a building in Yerevan, Armenia, that houses the government-in-exile ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: Azerbaijan: Civil society groups highlight climate and human rights concerns ahead of COP29
"Hundreds of people are behind bars in the country on politically motivated charges. A new wave of detentions is currently underway, with dozens of activists and media figures arrested on baseless, ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: Azerbaijan’s government turns on its critics at home
Bahruz Samadov, a young Azerbaijani academic and writer, was arrested on August 21st. He has since been charged with treason, reportedly because he had written critical pieces about the country’s ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: EU: Raise Human Rights Crisis in Azerbaijan during COP29
(Brussels, November 6, 2024) – European Union leaders attending COP29, the 29th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, should raise directly with ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: In Azerbaijan, the government takes treason seriously — or does it?
Over this past summer, authorities in Azerbaijan arrested two young scholars, accusing them of treason. Igbal Abilov and Bahruz Samadov were both accused of treason and sentenced to months in ...
News Azerbaijan » Government: COP29 is greenwashing a dictatorship, writes Azerbaijan’s main opposition leader
BAKU IS GEARING up to host COP29 in November, an event being prioritised by Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s authoritarian leader—not due to environmental concerns, but for image management. Over 90% of ...