FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The international community should increase pressure on the Azerbaijani government to release 23 journalists and media representatives who are unjustly imprisoned in Azerbaijan...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms The Azerbaijani government has intensified its repression ahead of the COP29 conference to be held in Baku. A young political analyst and PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague, Behruz Samadov, has reportedly been detained. In his articles, Samadov has repeatedly criticized the Azerbaijani government for its authoritarianism and its stance...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “The government should also heed this demand for rallies and lift the unjust ban on rallies. It is our people's right to assemble freely and peacefully, to voice grievances against the government, and to assert their demands…” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms Journalist Ismayil Tagiyev was called in as a witness to the Baku Serious Crimes Prosecution Office regarding the Abzas Media case. He spent approximately three hours at the police department before departing later that day. Tagiyev, in a statement to journalists, mentioned being detained in connection...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Leaving the Council of Europe would result in Azerbaijanis losing the opportunity to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights when their rights are not ensured in the country's courts…” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms The request for the house arrest of journalist Elnara Gasimova, arrested in connection with the "Abzas Media" case, was reviewed on February 2. Abzas Media reported that the request was not granted during the proceedings at the Baku Court of Appeal. The series of detentions began with the arrest of Ulvi Hasanli, the director of "Abzas...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “This government is alien to its people; it does not feel a need to understand the pain and listen to the cries of its people…” (Lack of) Human Rights and Freedoms Human rights defender Abid Gafarov addressed the UN hearings on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, presenting his report on the "Tartar case" and shedding light on the torture inflicted upon soldiers. The "Tartar case," also known as the Terter massacre, involves large-scale torture of Azerbaijani military personnel accused of treason in 2017, following the Nagorno-Karabakh war in April...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 04.11.2021 “Sooner or later, our people must come to terms with the fact that such an important task as breaking away from an unjust and violent regime should not be left only to the opposition, political activists, but also to the people themselves!” Governance, economy, corruption, transparency Blogger Mehman Huseynov continues his investigations to uncover illegal activities by senior officials. In his recent FB post, Huseynov wrote that the new chief executive of Ganja Niyazi Bayramov is corrupt like the previous one, and he pushed the mother of a martyr to the brink...


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