AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2019
Azerbaijani Bar Association Must Cease Harassment of Human Rights Lawyers
The undersigned organisations are concerned over the initiation of disciplinary measures by the Azerbaijani Bar Association against the human rights lawyers Nemat Kerimli and...
AzerbaijanReports & Briefing PapersDecember 2019
New report: Freedom of religion and belief in Azerbaijan
New report by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Human Rights Club analyses the existing national legislative framework regulating the exercise of the right...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsDecember 2019
Open Letter to the Presidium of the Azerbaijani Bar Association
The undersigned organisations condemn the disproportionate disciplinary measures by the Azerbaijani Bar Association against Azerbaijani human rights lawyer Shahla Humbatova on 27 November 2019....
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsApril 2019
Meet your defender: Zohrab Ismayil on unwritten rules, power of the civil society and...
Meet Zohrab Ismayil, civil activist and human rights defender from Azerbaijan. Zohrab's path to civic activism began from journalism. As a journalist, he focused...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Azerbaijan: 51 political prisoners released during Novruz celebrations
On 16 March 2019, 51 political prisoners were released from prison following a pardon issued by the President of Azerbaijan in relation to the...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2019
Meet your defender: Interview with Leyla Mustafayeva
Meet Leyla Mustafayeva, a journalist from Azerbaijan and the wife of investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli. Her husband was kidnapped in Georgia in May 2017...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMarch 2019
Meet your defender: Rasul Jafarov on human rights, his arrest and love for his...
Meet Rasul Jafarov, a lawyer and a leading human rights defender from #Azerbaijan. He is the first to tell his story for #meetyourdefender campaign.
https://youtu.be/rItz-7wXo1I
Rasul's...
AzerbaijanReports & Briefing PapersOctober 2018
Key concerns and recommendations on the protection of fundamental rights in Azerbaijan
Since the previous EU-Azerbaijan human rights dialogue in October 2017, the political context and human rights situation have not improved in the country. The...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2018
Statement in Support of Azerbaijani Human Rights Lawyer Elchin Sadigov
Civil Rights Defenders and International Partnership for Human Rights are gravely concerned to hear of new disciplinary proceeding launched against the Azerbaijani human rights lawyer...
AzerbaijanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2018
Open letter: President Macron should urge release of prisoners of conscience at 20 July...
Emmanuel MACRON
Président de la République française
Palais de l'Elysée
55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris
Brussels, Baku,
18 July 2018
Dear President Macron,
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned at...