Azerbaijan

September 19, 2026 22:42

• Participants of the action in Yerevan demanded that the UN ensure the return of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.

  Participants of the mourning "March of Memory" held in Yerevan sent a petition to the UN office calling for condemnation of the Azerbaijani authorities' policies and for measures to ensure the safe return of residents who left Nagorno-Karabakh after the hostilities in September 2023.

September 19, 2026 09:12

• Vardanyan reported to the Azerbaijani ombudsman about violations of the rights of convicted Armenians.

  Convicted citizens of Armenia in Azerbaijan are deprived of phone communication and visits with relatives, they are not provided with medical examinations, and their walking time has been reduced, stated the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh.

September 19, 2026 07:16

• Azerbaijani activists and scholars joined the dispute over the diplomats' visit to Karabakh.

  More than 50 Azerbaijani NGOs stated in a joint statement that claims against Baku due to the visit of foreign diplomatic missions to Karabakh hinder the establishment of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan supported the authorities' version that the Gandzasar Monastery is a monument of Caucasian Albania.

September 18, 2026 23:14

• Pashinyan excluded the operation of state institutions of Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenia.

  The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, stated that he will not allow the activities of state structures of Nagorno-Karabakh on the territory of the country. The authorities of the unrecognized republic intend to start consultations with Armenian parties, while Karabakh activists demand to legally enshrine the status of displaced persons as victims of genocide.

September 18, 2026 21:58

• The court in Baku refused to dismiss the case against Taleh Bagirzade's sons.

  The defense of the two minor sons of the leader of "Muslim Unity" Taleh Bagirzade, accused of beating a schoolgirl, insists on the absence of a crime, but the court rejected the lawyers' petition to dismiss the case. The mother of the teenagers claims that their prosecution has political motives.

September 17, 2026 18:47

• The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the denial of parole for Samir Ashurov.

  The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the denial of parole for PNF activist Samir Ashurov, who is serving a sentence for assault. The consideration of the cassation appeal took about two minutes and was held without the participation of the state prosecutor, noted human rights defender Zafar Akhmedov.

September 17, 2026 08:23

• Azerbaijani activist Abbasov pointed to the political motives behind his prosecution.

  In Azerbaijan, imprisoned Rail Abbasov linked the criminal prosecution to his participation in the campaign to defend activist Bakhtiyar Gadiyev. His lawyer reported on the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights after exhausting national remedies.

September 16, 2026 20:29

• Criticism from the Armenian side regarding the visits of diplomats to Karabakh met with objections in Azerbaijan.

  Foreign diplomats have the right to visit Karabakh as an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan, and the demands to condemn such trips are unfounded, Azerbaijani analysts stated.

September 16, 2026 13:47

• The Constitutional Court of Armenia approved the agreement on TRIPP

  The agreement on the "Trump Route" project has been recognized as compliant with the Constitution of Armenia.

September 16, 2026 12:45

• Azerbaijani activist Hasanov has been found guilty in the "NGO case".

  The court in Baku sentenced the head of the organization "Law and Development" Hafiz Hasanov to a suspended sentence, finding him guilty in a case concerning the activities of local and foreign NGOs.

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