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 📉

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...

EU–Azerbaijan relations in three chapters 🇪🇺🎥🇦🇿 1️⃣ Azerbaijan is framed as a “reliable energy partner” and key economic actor 2️⃣ Human rights follow later, reduced to vague calls 3️⃣ The EU speaks in dissonance; the Commission praises Parliament instead of acting

Azerbaijan's rolling out a centralised surveillance platform, MİRAS⚖️🔒 @ggogia.bsky.social highlights risks of serious privacy abuses. It gives security services broad access to personal data with no oversight or clear limits. 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

The European Parliament is to debate a new resolution on the human rights crisis in Azerbaijan this week 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 @europarl.europa.eu should use it to adopt benchmarks aimed at fixing a roadmap for the Commission and EEAS’ engagement with Azerbaijan. ➡️ Learn more free-anar.site/the-european...

Elbayi Karimli was allegedly found dead in his prison cell 💔 23 at the time of his arrest for having sprayed “Stalin” on a statute of Heydar Aliyev, he was found dead on 12 December (date of death of the former president). We call for a prompt, independent investigation.

We express our warm solidarity with our friends from Belarus, including human rights defender Alex Bialiatski, released today ❤️🤍❤️ Too many others remain behind bars #FreeThemAll @freeviasna.org

Hesabat: "Aİ Azərbaycanla dəyərlərə deyil, maraqlara əsaslanan münasibətə keçdi" toplummedia.tv/siyaset/phes...

A letter from prison by Anar Mammadli on this International Human Rights Day #HumanRightsDay #StandForRights #EqualityForAll

Avropanın Azərbaycan siyasətini tənqid edən hesabat yayımlanıb - Bakıda razılaşmırlar www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

⚠️New report ou now 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 The EU shifted from a values-based approach to a partnership shaped by energy and trade, as Azerbaijan lives its most intense crackdown. Over 400 political prisoners. Media closed. Civil society dismantled. EU leverage left unused. 🔗 free-anar.site/report-eu-az...

Press release: Human Rights Crisis in Azerbaijan: EU Must Stop Trading Away its Principles 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 🔜 Our report will be made available to the public today at 15.00 CET. 🔗 Find out more about what to expect: free-anar.site/press-releas...

EU engagement hasn't matched the scale of repression in Azerbaijan 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 Brussels treats energy and connectivity as detached from human rights. EU leaders skip political prisoners and civil society, and Baku took that silence as permission. 🔜 Report drops later today free-anar.site/report-eu-az...

Europe’s focus on energy and the Middle Corridor has given Baku leverage while rights were pushed aside 🇪🇺🛢️🇦🇿 Allegations of Russian fuel flowing through Azerbaijan raise deeper questions about Europe’s security choices 🇦🇿⚠️🇷🇺 Our report goes live tomorrow 🔜 free-anar.site/report-eu-az...

Slovakia is deepening ties with Azerbaijan through energy and defence, as proudly reported by pro-government Trend News Agency: www.trend.az/azerbaijan/p... Our new report shows how Europe’s focus on energy and trade pushed rights aside ⚠️⚖️ Advanced copy ➡️ free-anar.site/report-eu-az...

How repression spreads: Baku’s forum shows how Azerbaijan and Georgia now reinforce each other’s tools of control 🇦🇿📰🇬🇪 Europe must hold Azerbaijan accountable to be able to sustain democracy in Georgia. georgiatoday.ge/baku-hosts-a...

Azerbaïdjan : arrestation du leader de l’opposition Ali Karimli, via @lemonde.fr @emgryn.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

2.5 months pre-trial detention for Ali Karimli 🇦🇿⚖️ Today the Baku city Sabail District Court remanded Ali Karimli, chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, into pretrial detention until 16 February 2026. The sign is clear: prosecution will start 💔

Opposition leader detained in Azerbaijan’s continuing crackdown on dissent, via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/azer...

Freedom for Ali Karimli and his associates. A good moment to remind our friends and followers that all resources created by our Campaign belong to the public domaine and can be used freely. @creativecommons.bsky.social

Major crackdown in Azerbaijan over the weekend🇦🇿 PFPA leader Ali Karimli detained ⚠️ Other PFPA members were targeted, detained, or blocked from travelling ⚠️ We call for the immediate release of Ali Karimli and his associates. 🔗 free-anar.site/crisis-updat...

Opposition leader detained in Azerbaijan's continuing crackdown on dissent, via @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Azerbaijani police raid home of leading opposition figure amid coup attempt probe, by @Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

We are extremely concerned about today’s actions lead by the National Security Agency against the leader of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, Ali Karimli 🇦🇿

Azərbaycan hökuməti bu il xaricdəki 24 tənqidçiyə qarşı cinayət işi açıb toplummedia.tv/manset/pazer...

Azerbaijan’s presidential administration published a detailed plan for a new surveillance system. It listed 35 categories of personal data, including health and mental health history 🇦🇿📡 It was deleted from the presidential website within an hour❗️ Read more by @ocmedia.bsky.social

Azerbaijan is extending its repression abroad 🇦🇿⚖️ Trials in absentia are now used to target exiled journalists, activists and civil society leaders. Our new analysis shows a systematic effort to silence dissent beyond Azerbaijan’s borders. 🔗 free-anar.site/azerbaijan-e...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the defamation fine against Azadlıq was disproportionate. A 5-cent metro story became a test of press freedom; the judgment warns that such penalties silence watchdog journalism 🇦🇿⚖️📰 www.courthousenews.com/fine-for-5-c...

Bashir Suleymanli's next court hearing will be held at the Baku Serious Crimes Court tomorrow, 20 November at 11:00. Bashir Suleymanli is expected to start his defense speech at this court hearing.

From his cell in Baku, Anar Mammadli sent a stark message to @coe.int 🇦🇿🇪🇺 He shows how Strasbourg’s unimplemented rulings are now used against him. Clear defiance met with silence by the Council. His letter speaks to the wider pattern of repression in Azerbaijan. 🔗 free-anar.site/i-anar-mamma...

China’s footprint in Azerbaijan keeps growing 🇨🇳🇦🇿 Transport, energy, Middle Corridor projects now come with a “green” narrative that helps both governments push back against Western-led governance. Behind sustainability branding: deeper autocratic alignment. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Azerbaijan is turning away from the values and systems of rights-based multilateralism. Its ties with Europe are breaking down step by step 🇪🇺⚡️🇦🇿 Is closer alignment with the autocratic leaders of 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿 really what Azerbaijan’s people and youth want?

Freedom for Zabil Gahramanov ⚖️ We call for the immediate release of defence lawyer Zabil Gahramanov and for all charges against him to be dropped unconditionally. 🔗 free-anar.site/retaliatory-...

Azerbaijan intensifies crackdown on lawyers ⚖️ Defence lawyer Zabil Gahramanov was suspended, arrested, now charged on fabricated grounds after defending victims of torture. 🧐 Our case analysis shows how justice itself is becoming a punishable offence free-anar.site/retaliatory-...

Today EU Human Rights Representative @kajsaollongren.bsky.social presents her priorities before @droi.europarl.europa.eu & @afet.europarl.europa.eu ⚖️ She must address Azerbaijan’s human rights crisis: 1️⃣ Support exiled civil society & media 2️⃣ Build a common EU response #StayTuned for our report 🇦🇿🇪🇺

Azerbaijan handed over UN Climate Conference presidency to Brazil 🌍 #COP30 Since #COP29 in Baku: 🚨 Climate of Justice founders jailed ⚖️ Nazim Baydamirli sentenced to 8 years in prison 📚 Repression of media, civil society, scholars deepened Yet the EU carries on with business as usual 🇪🇺🇦🇿

“Family values”: the shield for violence in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿⚡️ Girls as young as 12 are giving birth. Men who rape or “marry” them walk free. Families stay silent. Courts call it “consensual”.

The US-Azerbaijan Strategic Working Group set up in August, now begins its work — on “security” and “prosperity” 🇦🇿🇺🇸 No word on 392 political prisoners or on human rights. Partnerships that ignore repression legitimise it 💔⚖️💔

“If I were in Azerbaijan right now, I'd probably be in prison.” Like so many Azerbaijani journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, Parvana Gurbanli now lives in exile 🇦🇿💔 Time for the EU @martakos.ec.europa.eu to support their work from abroad. @ecpmf.bsky.social www.ecpmf.eu/if-i-were-in...

We fully agree @martakos.ec.europa.eu Congratulations to our friends Andrzej Poczobut & Mzia Amaglobeli. The question is however why what the EU appears to stand for and support in Belarus or Georgia isn’t in any way what it stands for in Azerbaijan 🇦🇿🇪🇺

Security forces in Baku prevented Ulviya Ali's mother from visiting her after she came to congratulate her on her birthday 💔⚖️ www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/68971

President Aliyev calling for UN reform is irony at its peak. A president who crushes civil society, holds 392 political prisoners and ignores international law is in no position to lecture on multilateralism 🇦🇿 Trump's foreign policy speaks for itself 🇺🇸 www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

“Azərbaycan məhkəmələri ədalətin yox, hakimiyyətin alətinə çevrilib” www.meydan.tv/az/article/b...

Just two days ago, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted its resolution on arbitrary detention 🇺🇳 Difficult not to think of all the human rights defenders, journalists, activists and academics behind bars in Azerbaijan because of their beliefs and work ⚖️🇦🇿 #ClimateOfRepression

The International Association of Judges is to meet in Baku: rights groups urge it to confront Azerbaijan’s captured judiciary ⚖️🇦🇿 Courts must not serve repression. 🔗 free-anar.site/human-rights... @ibanews.bsky.social

Not a word about human rights and political prisoners in Azerbaijan by EU leadership @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 We’re not surprised but remain disappointed.

The appalling conditions of the prison system in Azerbaijan is well know🔴⚖️🔴 Arbitrarily detained journalists are now reporting on what they witness and undergo in prisons accross the country. 🔗 www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Az...

“Prizes without freedom risk becoming trophies of hypocrisy”: This year’s Václav Havel Prize must signal the Council of Europe to turn praise of courage into action against autocrats, even within its own ranks 💪 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...

Today at 14:45, Anar Mammadli’s trial continues at Baku Grave Crimes Court. He’s expected to resume his testimony exposing the political nature of the case. We call on international observers and diplomats to be present — your presence matters. #FreeAnar

The ECtHR has struck out new cases on politically motivated administrative detentions in Azerbaijan 📄 Unilateral declaration accepted: 💶 900 EUR for each applicant ⚖️ Acknowledgement of rights violations But no real remedy ⬇️