"Union for Democracy" finds March 18 referendum in Azerbaijan illegitimate

January 28, 2025 22:38

• Kadyrov boasts about sending armoured pickups to SMO zone

  Five armoured Changan pickups have been sent to fighters of the Chechen military units.

January 28, 2025 21:47

• Dagestani native Magomed Magomedov achieves public outcry around his case on torture at police

  Magomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who complained about torture at a police station, has been visited in a temporary detention facility (IVS) in Moscow by officials from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the prosecutor’s office. Human rights defenders have also visited the defendant in the IVS.

January 28, 2025 21:11

• Makhachkala resident complains about falsification of terrorism case

  Devlet Ismailov, a resident of Makhachkala, has claimed that the law enforcement bodies fabricated a case against him for creating a terrorist organization and that a court arrested him without any grounds.

January 27, 2025 22:00

• AI points to worsening human rights situation in Azerbaijan

  The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has noted the intensification of repressions against journalists and activists in Azerbaijan and called on the international community to condemn human rights violations.

January 27, 2025 21:59

• Rights activists point to worsening political freedoms in Azerbaijan

  In 2024, the human rights situation in Azerbaijan worsened in all the parameters of political freedoms; repressions against journalists and activists intensified, and custody conditions in detention places grew poorer.