Azerbaijan

August 02, 2026 05:54

• Two TikTokers have been arrested in Baku for unethical behavior.

  The court in Baku has sentenced TikToker Sanur Azizov to eight days in jail for unethical behavior on the internet. A day earlier, blogger Myuzhgyan Mamedzade was arrested for a similar offense for ten days.

August 01, 2026 18:00

• The witness refuted the claims of the misappropriation of funds by Bashir Suleymanly.

  At the trial of the head of the Institute of Civil Rights, Bashir Suleymanly, witness Mehriban Ragimli stated that the funding of projects by the American foundation, with which Azerbaijani NGOs collaborated, was carried out based on service contracts, and the projects themselves underwent audits. According to her, the prosecution's claims of ineffective use of funds are not supported by facts.

August 01, 2026 16:00

• Vardanyan's wife has again asked Pashinyan to assist with a visit to the captives in Baku.

  Veronika Zonabend, the wife of the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan, has once again appealed to international organizations and the authorities of Armenia, urging them to facilitate a visit to Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan. Her previous appeal to the Prime Minister of Armenia and the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan went unanswered.

August 01, 2026 09:50

• PNFA activist arrested in Azerbaijan after social media posts

  Activist of the Tovuz district branch of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Elmar Piriev has been arrested for 10 days. Associates indicated that the case against Piriev is politically motivated and related to his opposition activities and social media activity.

July 31, 2026 11:54

• A Ukrainian court has released an Azerbaijani opposition figure despite Baku's extradition request.

  Opposition activist Bahruz Hasanli, detained in Ukraine at the request of Azerbaijani law enforcement, has been released by a Kharkiv court. PFPA members and the activist himself link the criminal prosecution to his political activities in Azerbaijan, arguing that the fraud charges are unfounded. The PFPA hopes that Ukrainian authorities will definitively deny the activist's extradition to Azerbaijan.

July 30, 2026 19:51

• APFP activist Kenan Zeynalov has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.

  The Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced the activist of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party and public bodyguard of opposition leader Ali Kerimli, Kenan Zeynalov, to nine years in prison in a case of inflicting injury. The defense stated that there was a lack of credible evidence and expressed its intention to appeal the verdict. The APFP calls the criminal prosecution of the activist fabricated and politically motivated.

July 30, 2026 18:01

• Journalists and human rights defenders criticized the verdict in the Toplum TV case.

  The editorial office of the exiled Azerbaijani publication Toplum TV expressed disagreement with the guilty verdict handed down to the publication's journalists and activists of the Institute of Democratic Initiatives, calling the criminal prosecution politically motivated. International organizations for the protection of press freedom condemned the court's decision and urged the Azerbaijani authorities to release the journalists.

July 30, 2026 09:46

• Human rights defenders condemned the pressure on the mother of the journalist from Meydan TV.

  The international human rights organization Freedom Now condemned the use of physical force against Dilruba Amanova, the mother of the accused in the case of Meydan TV journalist Aytaj Tapdyg, and called on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop pressuring the relatives of political prisoners.

July 30, 2026 07:47

• The lawyer reported pressure on the imprisoned Azerbaijani blogger.

  Human rights lawyer Nazim Musaev stated about the violation of attorney-client privilege and pressure from the staff of the correctional institution in Azerbaijan after meeting with his client Elmira Sadigov, a relative of opposition blogger Tural Sadigly.

July 29, 2026 19:44

• Four people received sentences in Azerbaijan for attempting to hold a procession with Soviet flags.

  The court in Baku sentenced four men to terms of one and a half to two years for attempting to hold a procession with Soviet flags in November 2025. According to the investigation, they acted with the support and funding of another state.

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