Emin Huseynov

Brussels Hosts Roundtable on Azerbaijan

A roundtable event entitled “Justice Behind Bars: The Persecution of Civil Society in Azerbaijan” was hosted in Brussels to discuss the situation in Azerbaijan, with the participation of the exiled Azerbaijan activists Emin Huseynov, Gulnara Akhundova and Emin Milli, and...

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Azerbaijan Challenged over Deprivation of Citizenship

NEW YORK—A leading Azerbaijani journalist and rights defender is asking the European Court of Human Rights to rule that he has been wrongly stripped of his citizenship by Azerbaijan’s increasingly repressive government. Emin Huseynov, who now lives in exile in Switzerland,...

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JOINT STATEMENT: Anniversary of human rights defender’s arrest marks one year of unprecedented repression in Azerbaijan

JOINT STATEMENT July 30, 2015 Anniversary of human rights defender’s arrest marks one year of unprecedented repression in Azerbaijan A year after the Azerbaijani government launched an unprecedented crackdown on human rights, the situation in the country continues to deteriorate. The Sport for Rights...

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Azerbaijani journalist appeals to Christiane Amanpour to help jailed colleagues

Azerbaijani journalist Idrak Abbasov’s story bears all the hallmarks of the typical forms of pressure used by an increasingly intolerant regime to silence its critics. Abbasov became a target for providing a rare critical voice in a media climate dominated...

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