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UA 68/13 Azerbaijan - FOUR YOUTH ACTIVISTS FACE PRISON SENTENCES
Azerbaijan Four members of the NIDA youth movement were arrested on 8 and 15 March in Baku, Azerbaijan. All four had been involved in organising a peaceful protest, which was violently dispersed by the authorities on 10 March and face long prison sentences. Youth activists Mahammad ...
UA 11/13 AZERBAIJAN - PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S CONVOY ATTACKED
AZERBAIJAN A convoy carrying opposition Azerbaijani Presidential candidate Isa Gambar was attacked by a mob on 13 January, resulting in at least nine people injured and several cars badly damaged. Police looked on without intervening. According to a spokesperson from Isa Gambar’s party, Musavat, the Presidential candidate ...
UA 291/12 AZERBAIJAN - YOUTH ACTIVIST CHARGED AND DETAINED
AZERBAIJAN On 29 September, opposition youth activist Zaur Gurbanli was detained in Baku, Azerbaijan by authorities from Azerbaijan’s Anti-Organized Crimes Unit. He was given 15 days in prison following a closed trial on the day of his arrest. On 29 September, opposition youth activist Zaur Gurbanli, 25, ...
UA 168/12 AZERBAIJAN - AZERI ACTIVIST: CHARGES MUST BE DROPPED
AZERBAIJAN Pro-democracy activist Mehman Huseynov is facing up to five years in jail on charges of "hooliganism", despite eyewitnesses contradicting police claims that he committed acts of violence. He appears to have been targeted for highlighting abuses in the country during the Eurovision Song Contest. Mehman Huseynov, ...
Further information on UA 133/11 AZERBAIJAN - JABBAR SAVALAN CONSCRIPTED INTO ARMY
AZERBAIJAN University student Jabbar Savalan has been conscripted by the Azerbaijani military. As he should be exempt from military service, Amnesty International believes he is being targeted because of his peaceful activism. Jabbar Savalan was summoned to the military commissariat for a medical examination on 30 April. On ...
UA 110/12 AZERBAIJAN - POLICE AND STATE OIL STAFF BEAT UP JOURNALISTS
AZERBAIJAN Two journalists trying to film illegal house demolitions in Azerbaijan on 18 April were beaten up by and police, and had to be hospitalized. Award winning journalist Idrak Abbasov tried to film the hundreds of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) employees illlegally demolishing houses in the settlement of ...
UA 88/12 AZERBAIJAN - YOUTH ACTIVISTS BEATEN, RISK POLICE TORTURE
AZERBAIJAN Three youth activists have been beaten in police custody, and are at risk of torture. They were arrested while performing at a peaceful protest in the capital, Baku, after one of them swore about the President's family. They are now detained incommunicado. Several youth organizations held ...
UA 79/12 AZERBAIJAN - POLICE BEAT UP PEACEFUL PROTESTERS
AZERBAIJAN Police beat five youth activists during and after a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, on 6 March. The protest had been sparked by reports that two prisoners of conscience had been beaten while being moved between prisons, and police dispersed them violently. Jabbar Savalan and ...
Further information on UA 133/11 AZERBAIJAN - FACEBOOK ACTIVIST HAS APPEAL REJECTED
AZERBAIJAN On 29 November Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Jabbar Savalan, a 20 year-old youth activist and prisoner of conscience. He was arrested in February, one day after posting on Facebook calling for protests against the government. On 4 May 2011, Jabbar Savalan was jailed ...
