OCCRP8h
Azerbaijan’s Media Crackdown Continues with New Arrests
Azerbaijan intensifies its crackdown on independent media, targeting journalists and activists under contentious charges.
Human Rights Watch11h
Joint Letter: Urgent call to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan’s PACE credentials at Winter session 2025
Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a prominent activist, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in January 2025 on bogus charges of hooliganism, illegal entrepreneurship, and smuggling charges. PACE rapporteurs had ...
On Day One, Rubio should reverse Blinken and Power’s Azerbaijan cowardice
Writing on Truth Social on Oct. 24, President-elect Donald Trump condemned Vice President Kamala Harris for what happened to ...
Azerbaijan begins trials of Karabakh ex-separatists including billionaire
A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in ...
Global Voices Online4d
In Azerbaijan authorities remain on track to keep critics silenced and locked up
Azerbaijan's civil society has been rocked by a series of targeted arrests which peaked in 2023 and continued throughout the ...
mirrorspectator5d
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians Struggle to Cling to Their Identity
For decades, Donara Gasparyan baked Zhingyalov hats — a type of flatbread stuffed with finely diced herbs, which is  a symbol ...
Azerbaijan’s Leader, Emboldened, Picks a Rare Fight With Putin
Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan ...
Asbarez5d
35 Years After Baku Pogroms, Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians Continues
The 1990 massacre of the Armenian population in Baku was aimed at forcibly expelling the remnants of the once 250,000-strong ...