Fuad Ahmadli, the arrested chairman of Khatai district Youth Committee of the opposition party Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), cannot meet with his family or talk to them on the phone, Fuad Ahmadli’s lawyer Asabali Mustafayev has said. Fuad Ahmadli...

Human rights defenders have addressed an appeal to Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland, urging him to give a legal assessment of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Azerbaijan. “We are writing to urge your office to initiate the...

The Azadliq newspaper is about to close due to its inability to carry out banking operations, the newspaper’s deputy chief editor Rahim Hajiyev has said. According to him, as the newspaper’s financial director Faig Amirli has been arrested, the signature...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will send a seven-member delegation to Azerbaijan to conduct an assessment of the upcoming referendum in the country, as decided at today’s meeting of the PACE Bureau. It was also decided at...

Sabail District Court heard journalist Aytaj Ahmadova’s complaint against her unlawful detention by the Main Organised Crime Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to journalist’s lawyer Zibeyda Sadigova, the court left the complaint undecided. The lawyer said the judge...

On September 3, Khural newspaper editor-in-chief, former political prisoner Avaz Zeynalli was summoned to Police Station #4 of Binagadi District Police Department but was not told the reason he was summoned, Avaz Zeynalli himself has said. “I met with Nadir Abbasov,...