Azerbaijan: participant of anti-Israeli protests in Nardaran detained

January 22, 2025 23:09

• “Reporters Without Borders”: repression against journalists in Azerbaijan increases

  Ahead of the trial in a case against journalists of the “Abzas Media” online publication, the “Reporters Without Borders” human rights organization called on to release employees of independent media outlets arrested in Azerbaijan.

January 22, 2025 21:56

• Human rights defenders treat court’s decision in missing Chechen Umarov’s case as unlawful

  In Grozny, a court has dismissed a complaint about the investigator’s refusal to present for examination the materials of a criminal case on disappearance of Movsar Umarov. The investigators are not interested in investigating cases that could prove the law enforcers’ involvement in the disappearances of people, human rights defenders suggest.

January 22, 2025 20:45

• Verdict to blogger Askhabali Alibekov mitigated

  The court has educed the freedom deprivation term of Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from Novorossiysk, convicted within the case of attacking a policeman, by four months.

January 21, 2025 23:56

• Chechen advocate lIdalov demands to punish judge for unjust verdict

  Timur Idalov, an advocate from Chechnya, has been released from forced labour, since the order to enforce his sentence was revoked. The statute of limitations for the case has already expired. Idalov asked the Supreme Court (SC) to hold the judge who had sentenced him accountable.

January 21, 2025 23:17

• Defence of scientist Gubad Ibadoglu claims violation of his rights by police

  Gubad Ibadoglu, an opposition politician, scientist and economist, has to regularly report to the police station in the city of Sumgait under the conditions of police supervision, although he lives in Baku, and regular trips negatively affect his health.