Sakit Zahidov, a well-known journalist in Azerbaijan, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on questionable charges of possessing illegal drugs. Amnesty International ...
This briefing summarizes Amnesty International's concerns regarding the failure of the authorities in Azerbaijan to guarantee freedom of expression in accordance ...
A climate of impunity is fostering new assaults on citizens for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression. Journalists Ali Orucov and Nicat Hüseynov ...
In Azerbaijan two more members of civil society were assaulted with impunity by unknown men days before the New Year, apparently for peacefully exercising their ...
This bulletin contains information about Amnesty International's main concerns in Europe and Central Asia between January and June 2006. Not every country in the ...
On 28 November the meeting of the heads of the states in the Commonwealth of Independent States takes place in Minsk, Belarus. On the eve of the meeting Amnesty ...
Shahin Agabeyli, editor of the opposition weekly Milli Yol newspaper, is currently on hunger strike in protest at his forthcoming trial on the charge of defamation ...
Mushviq Mammedov was released from custody on 26 May, having being arrested on 28 April on draft evasion charges. He was placed under house arrest until the beginning ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: EUR 55/006/2006 (Public). News Service No: 210. 9 August 2006. Azerbaijan: Freedom of expression under attack ...