Yerevan will inform about Armenia and Azerbaijan's presidents meeting in due...
The information about Armenia and Azerbaijan's presidents meeting will be provided in due time and due form, Tigran Balayan, Press-Secretary of Armenia's Foreign Ministry told ArmInfo's correspondent,...
View ArticleIlham Aliyev attended the first session of the Azerbaijani Parliament’s fifth...
(Source: President of the Republic of Azerbaijan) Then chairmen of the committees of the Parliament were elected. MP Ali Huseynli was approved as chairman of the committee on legal policy and state...
View ArticlePress freedom violations recounted in real time January 2015 (RSF - Reporters...
(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) 24.11.2015 - One-year jail term for journalist Rihaneh Tabtabai Reporters Without Borders condemns a Tehran appeal court's decision on 17 November to uphold...
View ArticleJustice behind bars: The persecution of civil society in Azerbaijan
Dec 1, Baku: A new report published by International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) highlights the abuse of the criminal justice system during the current unprecedented civil society crackdown in...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Hands Over Karabakh Defector To Separatist Side
Azerbaijan has handed over to its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region a separatist fighter who defected earlier this year to the Azerbaijani side....
View ArticleDispatches: An Opening to Seize Upon in Azerbaijan (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) Today’s transfer of ailing Azerbaijani rights defender Arif Yunus to house arrest is a rare piece of positive news on human rights in Azerbaijan. Of course, relief...
View ArticleAzerbaijan's law enforcement launches special op in Nardaran
A special operation was launched in the Nardaran township of Baku Dec. 1 by Azerbaijani law enforcement authorities, according to a joint message issued by Azerbaijan's interior ministry, national...
View ArticleOSCE PA’s Santos welcomes release of Azerbaijan’s Arif Yunus on humanitarian...
(Source: OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) COPENHAGEN, 12 November 2015 - The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian...
View ArticleIt Turns Out Armenia Pays Azerbaijan For Transit
IT TURNS OUT ARMENIA PAYS AZERBAIJAN FOR TRANSIT Naira Hayrumyan, Political Commentator Business - 09 November 2015, 17:06 Related Moscow-Baku-Ankara Pole Emerged November 1 Is X Day West Will Be...
View ArticleJailed Azerbaijani Journalist Honored With Prestigious HRW Award
Isabela Cocoli Human Rights Watch says it is honoring imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova with its prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism. The award is named...
View ArticleAzerbaijani Theologian Said To Have Been Plotting Coup
At least four local Shi'ite Muslims and two police officers died on November 26 in violent clashes in the settlement of Nardaran, 25 kilometers northeast of Baku. Fourteen people, including the...
View ArticleImprisoned Azerbaijani Journalist Honored (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Geneva) – An imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist will be honored on November 19, 2015, with the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human...
View ArticleAzerbaijan releases human rights activist but wife remains in jail
Court orders Arif Yunus to be freed on health grounds as fears grow for his wife Leyla. RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani service reports...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Measure of restraint against Mr. Arif Yunusov changed from...
(Source: OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture) Azerbaijan: Measure of restraint against Mr. Arif Yunusov changed from detention to conditional release for the period of appeal URGENT APPEAL - THE...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Deepens Crackdown On Shi'ite Stronghold
Authorities in Azerbaijan have conducted a sweeping security operation in Nardaran, a suburb of Baku known as a traditional Shi'ite Muslim stronghold. The December 1 raid came just days after armed...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: New developments in the trial against Leyla and Arif Yunus and...
(Source: OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture) Azerbaijan: New developments in the trial against Leyla and Arif Yunus and potential acts of ill-treatment against Leyla Yunus URGENT APPEAL - THE...
View ArticleAzerbaijan's president fires communications minister
Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, fired his Communications Minister Ali Abbasov, weeks after the dismissal of his national security minister and the arrests of high-ranking former security...
View ArticleAzerbaijan deploys police to restore order in Islamic suburb
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Law-enforcement agencies in Azerbaijan have launched a special operation to quiet mounting unrest in a...
View ArticleThe Latest: Interior Ministry condemns inter-faith violence
PARIS (AP) - The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local): 11:59 p.m. France's Interior Minister condemned anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic attacks in Marseille Wednesday but made no link...
View ArticleA Secret Service officer was arrested after texting naked photos to a police...
A U.S. Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested this week after he sent naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint....
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