The Azerbaijani government prepping citizens to accept a dynasty🤴🇦🇿👸
It used to be all about President Ilham Aliyev. Pro-government media now report more and more about the Family’s religious, charitable, symbolic activities, via @globalvoices.org
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🇬🇪 Last night: Georgia expels Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov to face persecution in Baku.
🇦🇿 Today: President Aliyev lands in Tbilisi.
Some coincidences are hard to overlook.
Our CRISIS UPDATE: free-anar.site/afgan-sadigo...
🚨 CRISIS UPDATE
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov was arrested in Tbilisi, forcibly expelled, and has arrived in Baku today.
It all took place despite binding @echr.coe.int interim measures.
This is transnational repression. Georgia must account for it.
🔗 free-anar.site/afgan-sadigo...
Azerbaijan ramps up pressure against ‘political prisoners’, via @ocmedia.bsky.social
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Trump's Middle East Envoy, Stephan Wittkoff, claimed Aliyev has "completely transformed" Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
➡️ Today, Azerbaijan holds the highest number of political prisoners since Aliyev took power in 2003. That's transformative repression.
Protest-style poster with a bold graphic portrait of Nazim Baydamirli against a cream background with a red diagonal accent. Text reads: "FREEDOM FOR NAZIM BAYDAMIRLI — END REPRESSION IN AZERBAIJAN." Website address www.endrepression-az.org appears in the top right corner.
⚠️ Former Azerbaijani MP Nazim Baydemirli has been hospitalised in detention after a sudden health deterioration.
He has been imprisoned since July 2023 for taking part in community protests in Soyudlu. Sentenced to 8 years.
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Intigam Aliyev receiving the Homo Homini Award on 4 March 2013 in Prague from the hands of at the time Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg (source: Human Rights House Foundation).
🕊️ 10 years ago today, Intigam Aliyev was released from prison: Azerbaijan’s leading human rights lawyer, teacher of a generation, jailed for doing his job.
His release came in a decade of repression that has never stopped.
We wholeheartedly welcome the pardon of 250 political prisoners in Belarus as a result of negotiations led by the USA, including our friends and colleagues from @freeviasna.org 🤍❤️🤍
Infographic titled “Human Rights at Stake: Top 10 Human Rights Trends” on a green background. Ten white line icons with short labels: protracted wars and civilian harm; security first, human rights sidelined; multilateral legitimacy crisis; eroding human rights leadership; far-right normalisation and welfare capture; gender backlash and rollback of women’s and LGBTQ rights; closing civic space to consolidate power; defenders delegitimised, including in exile; environmental rights eroded, defenders targeted; information integrity under pressure: AI and disinformation. Human Rights Compass logo appears at the bottom right.
⚖️ Human Rights At Stake ⚖️
Mapped by 120+ human rights defenders and experts as the global realignment hardens into a fractured order, and civic space, equality, and accountability come under pressure
➡️10 Global Human Rights Trends humanrightscompass.org#kpg_17808
Ali Karimli has now been in detention for 75 days.
A court has prolonged his pre-trial detention.
➡️ Use and share our portrait image to show solidarity with him and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan: free-anar.site/political-pr... ✊🇦🇿
Unlawfully detained, woman journalist Aysel Umudova faces sexual violence. she has reported being subjected to sexual harassment, degrading conditions of detention, intimidation and coercion.
We call for her immediate and unconditional release.
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Today in Baku, another hearing took place in the trial of human rights defender Anar Mammadli. All the theatre of justice is there, except justice itself.
Anar Mammadli should be released immediately and unconditionally.
#FreeAnar
Unlawfully detained, woman journalist Ulviyya Ali Guliyeva faces sexual violence.
We call for her immediate and unconditional release.
🔗 free-anar.site/unlawfully-d...
Continued deterioration of Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record, documented by @hrw.org in its annual report 🇦🇿
The government intensified its crackdown on media, political opponents, civil society, silencing dissent, further entrenching a climate of fear.
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We joined NGOs to denounce sexual harassment, rape threats, ill-treatment against jailed Azerbaijani women journalists Aysel Umudova and Ulviyya Guliyeva ⚠️
We call for their release; ind't investigations and accountability; access to adequate medical care 🇦🇿⚖️
🔗 free-anar.site/unlawfully-d...
After joining Board of Peace, with reports of a $1bn buy-in, Azerbaijan is already diverging from Donald Trump on Iran protests 🇦🇿🇺🇸
Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️
Peace activist, PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov to be moved to the high-security Umbaki prison 🇦🇿
He should not be transferred. He should not be in prison. He asked internationals to attend the hearing ⚠️
📆 29 January 2026
📍 Baku Court of Appeal
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Denying medical aid to political prisoners is a continued practice in Azerbaijan 🏥🇦🇿
➡️ @amnesty.org's call for urgent action on the case of 12 journalists from @meydantv.bsky.social and affiliated media denied urgently needed medical care: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Human rights defenders call on the Council of Europe to respond to the human rights crisis in Azerbaijan: @pace.coe.int should launch joint complementary procedure, via Caucasian Knot
www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/72211
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Azerbaijan has spent a decade disregarding the Council of Europe’s judgments ⚖️
PACE should protect the Convention system by launching a Joint Complementary Procedure 🔍
➡️ Our analysis: free-anar.site/the-council-...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that he is proud that Donald Trump treats him "like a friend.”
Aliyev’s Azerbaijan is paying USD 1 billion to join Trump’s Board of Peace. Buying international recognition is what Aliyev’s system knows best 💰
➡️ Join us today to discuss how to stop the international community trading away its principles ⚖️🇦🇿 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cffd72...
President Aliyev on @euronews.com, 20 Jan 2026: Azerbaijan ends cooperation with EP and PACE 🇪🇺⚠️🇦🇿 He says the European Commission is enough.
The Commission shouldn't accept to be the only channel & must tie energy and trade talks to releases and civic space 🛢️⚠️⚖️
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Human Rights Crisis in Azerbaijan: Europe Needs to Act
Repression deepens, civic space disappears, Europe’s energy-first approach no longer sustainable
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Join our discussion
📆 Wed. 21 January, 15.00-16.00 CET
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Two more officials sanctioned for human rights violations in Russia: Judge D. Gordeev & Prosecutor L. Balandina.
Yet @consilium.europa.eu remains silent on systemic repression of journalists, human rights defenders, opposition in Azerbaijan 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿
Double standards weaken credibility 📉
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Dark blue website banner with the headline “European Parliament Adopts New Resolution on Azerbaijan” in large gold text. Below, a short excerpt explains that the resolution reinforces calls for conditionality and accountability and refers to the condemnation of arbitrary arrests of Azerbaijani scholars. A red “Read More” button appears centred beneath the text.
The European Parliament adopted a new resolution on Azerbaijan 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿
It names emblematic cases, condemns the misuse of criminal law, calls for the release of political prisoners, and links EU cooperation to real human rights progress.
🔗 free-anar.site/european-par...
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How the EU trades away principles: Our report documents how EU-Azerbaijan relations prioritise energy and trade, whilst human rights and the rule of law are sidelined.
🔗 Read the full analysis free-anar.site/report-eu-az...
