Mahammad Salimov, an activist based in Agdash, has been detained for posting information about a protest on Facebook social network and sentenced to 10 days in jail on charges of resisting the police, as reported by youth activist Ramin Sayaddinov. Mahammad...

The car belonging to Azadliq newspaper financial director Faig Amirli’s wife Lala Amirli is yet to be returned. Faig Amirli was arrested on August 20. Upon his arrest, his house and their family car were searched. The operatives did not...

Nasimi district Court considered the motion to replace the pre-trial detention measure selected against REAL Movement’s arrested executive secretary Natig Jafarli with bail. Lawyer Javad Javadov reported on the closed hearing. Natig Jafarli was arrested on 12 August 2016. He...

Khatai district Court has heard the investigative authority’s petition to extend the term of pre-trial detention imposed against NIDA Civic Movement member Bayram Mammadov. Speaking about the closed hearing, lawyer Elchin Sadigov said Mammadov’s period of detention had been prolonged...

On September 6, writer Akram Aylisli and lawyer Elchin Sadigov visited Baku city Prosecutor’s Office, as reported by Elchin Sadigov. Akram Aylisli was detained together with his son Ilyas Aylisli at Heydar Aliyev International Airport en route to Italy on...

The Azerbaijan publishing house has refused to print the Azadliq newspaper for an indefinite period of time due to the newspaper’s debt owed to the publisher. The publishing company had set a deadline for Azadliq to pay a significant portion...

The President of Azerbaijan has put forward a proposal to include new articles in the Criminal Code. One of such articles is draft Article 278.2, according to which, actions aimed at the violent change of the constitutional system, as well...