Turkey will not establish diplomatic or economic relations with Armenia, unless it withdraws from Azerbaijan’s occupied territories
“Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey trilateral business forums organized on the initiative of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are another indicator of the strategic regional partnership among our countries”, Turkish Minister of Economy Zafer Caglayan,…
Khalida Khalid and Shamkhal Huseynov have not been handed over to the Consulate General in Tabriz yet”
Azerbaijani citizens Khalida Khalid and Shamkhal Huseynov arrested in Tabriz have not been handed over to the Azerbaijani side yet, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Elman Abdullayev told…
Closure of “Azadlig” newspaper is possible
The "Azadlig" newspaper may be closed, Turan was told by Rahim Hajiyev, the deputy chief-editor of the leading opposition newspaper. The refusal of "Gasid" the company-distributor to pay funds from…
Children of Azerbaijani Oligarchs in London
By Murad Gassanly In March this year I published an article exposing London property dealings of Yunis Abasov, the son of a notorious Azerbaijani minister-oligarch. It was not so much…
AZERBAIJAN: New legislative amendments further erode rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan’s National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The…
Dunja Miyativic Criticises the Increased Pressure on Azerbaijan Media
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today expressed deep concern about the increasingly hostile situation for the media in Azerbaijan following moves to extend the criminalization…
45 years of prison for 5 political activists
HRANA News Agency – Each of 5 Azerbaijani political activists have been sentenced to 9 years of prison. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Pour…
The Amnesty Does Not Actually Affect Political Prisoners
Today, the Azerbaijani parliament adopted the Amnesty Act, presented to the President by his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, and dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Heydar Aliyev. The act was passed…
Commendations And Concerns Regarding Azerbaijan
The United Nations Human Rights Council held a review and dialogue on Azerbaijan’s human rights performance. On April 30, The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group,…
Situation around Khalida Khalid Arrested in Iran Remains Unclear
Iranian authorities have accused the employee of the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Khalida Khalid, who was arrested in Tabriz on April 30, of espionage.…
