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#IndexAwards 2018: Jamal Ali’s music fights oppression in Azerbaijan

 Jamal Ali is a young Azerbaijani rapper living in exile in Berlin who - with one song - challenged the authoritarian regime.
2018-03-19

Azerbaijan: Open letter to EU ahead of Aliyev’s Brussels visit

 NGOs urge the EU member state heads and leaders to use the summit to call on president Aliyev to end the current human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan
2017-10-28

Joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Azerbaijan
2017-10-10

LGBT people are being detained and beaten in Azerbaijan (Dazed)

 Last week, Azerbaijani queer rights activist Javid Nabiyev posted a video on Facebook, in which he revealed that a series of police raids disproportionately aimed at LGBTQ+ people had been carried out in Baku, the country’s capital, over a series of days. Read the full article
2017-09-28

Azerbaijan’s war on journalism rolls on

 The government of Azerbaijan is waging a war on independent journalism both in the country and abroad.
2017-09-22

Director of Azerbaijan’s last remaining independent media outlet arrested

 The charges against Mehman Aliyev and Turan news agency are the nail in the coffin for press freedom in Azerbaijan
2017-08-25

Abduction, torture and intimidation: Azerbaijan’s endless crackdown on independent journalism

 Media outlets in Azerbaijan routinely deal with torture, assault, raids, imprisonment and endless intimidation, as verified reports submitted to Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project show.
2017-07-14

Human rights organisations call on French president to pressure Azerbaijan

 Index on Censorship joins with international organisations to urge France to pressure Azerbaijan on its approach to free expression
2017-07-11

Azerbaijan: Interpol must prevent misuse of alerts against Leyla and Arif Yunus

 Index on Censorship joins with 24 other international organisations to call on Interpol to prevent the misuse of Interpol alerts against Leyla and Arif Yunus
2017-06-13

Mapping Media Freedom: Azerbaijani journalist abducted and beaten

 Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
2017-06-08

Abduction of exiled Azerbaijani journalist black stain on Georgia’s reputation

 Index on Censorship and 22 other NGOs have written to Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili calling on his government to respect its international obligations and, in particular, to conduct a full investigation into Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli’s abduction in Tbilisi on 29 May.
2017-06-07

Azerbaijan: Index calls for the immediate release of journalist Afgan Mukhtarli

 The exiled Azerbaijani journalist disappeared from Georgia and reappeared in Azerbaijan, where he is now facing persecution
2017-05-31