Joint statement

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the other undersigned members of the Sport for Rights coalition express serious concern regarding the on-going disciplinary case against Yalchin Imanov, a prominent human rights lawyer in Azerbaijan. Continue reading »

Tags: Azerbaijan, Collegium of Advocates, FIDH, human rights defenders, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Sport for Rights coalition, Yalchin Imanov

It’s very complicated… when oligarchs or the modern “kings” in power believe that only they have exclusive rights for Human Rights.
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Tags: Aliaksei Lapicki, Azerbaijan, human rights, human rights activists, lawyer, Yalchyn Imanau

Intigam Aliyev, President of the Legal Education Society (LES), Azerbaijan, and a member of the Council of Europe’s Expert Council on non-governmental organisation (NGO) law, was today named the winner of the 2015 International Bar Association (IBA) Human Rights Award. Continue reading »

Tags: Azerbaijan, HR activists, IBA Human Rights Award 2015, International Bar Association, Intigam Aliyev, the prosecution of human rights defenders

VIENNA 16 April 2015

VIENNA, 16 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the sentencing of Rasul Jafarov, a free expression and free media advocate and human rights defender in Azerbaijan, to six and a half years in a penal colony. Continue reading »

Tags: Azerbaijan, Freedom of the Media, OSCE, VIENNA

Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna” and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, was in Strasbourg at the opening session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where on September 29 has been named the winner of the Vaclav Havel Prizeon human rights.
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Tags: Ales Bialacki, Anar Mammedli, Azerbaijan, human rights defenders, political prisoners

Paris-Geneva, August 6, 2014 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, deplores the recent acts of harassment and arrests of prominent human rights defenders Rasul Jafarov, Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunusov, and calls on the authorities to put an end to the ongoing repression against civil society organisations and representatives. Continue reading »

Tags: Azerbaijan, criminal persecution, HR defenders, human rights defenders, international organizations, NGOs, political persecution

Azerbaijan’s most prominent human rights campaigner has been detained with her husband while trying to leave the country.
Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, an academic, were hoping to board a flight from the capital Baku to Doha in Qatar, but were held at the airport. Continue reading »

Tags: Azerbaijan, human rights defenders, Leyla Yunus