📢 Join us for our side event at #HRC60: Human Rights in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 🗓 12 September 🕚 11:00–12:00 📍 Room VIII Speakers will highlight the plight of 400+ political prisoners, repression of journalists & civil society, and discuss how the international community can respond

⚡️IRFS strongly condemns the Appeal Court’s move to maintain the unjust verdict against Abzas Media journalists. ❌ Silencing critical voices will not erase the truth in #Azerbaijan. irfs.org/news-feed/verd…

🙌🏻 Along w partners from @IRFS_ORG we held a timely side event on Human Rights Situation in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 during the #HRC60 in United Nations Geneva The side event brought together international NGOs, diplomats, journalists and UN officials

❗️Behind the stats are people—journalists, academics, minorities—suffering in silence in #Azerbaijan🇦🇿 Our side event called for justice, dignity & protection. 👇🏼 Find a press release and a recording below: instituteforhumanrights.org/post/a-paralle…

👉🏼 For those who missed it: Human rights organizations have appealed to the UN Human Rights Council on the alarming situation with political prisoners and mass rights violations in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 📺 Watch the recording: youtu.be/4s_mPm-lHXY?si…

It is a true pleasure to be on the panel among the distinguished colleagues and to address UN member states on the pressing concerns of today’s. The brutal killing of Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov in #Russia is not only an appalling crime, but also a stark reminder of how

🚨 9 years of imprisonment for receiving 500 EUR In #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 renowned investigative journalist Hafiz Babaly was charged with money smuggling The government continues silencing the free voices!

🇦🇿 Abzas Media journalists Sevinj Vagifgizi, Nargiz Absalamova, and Elnara Gasimova have been transferred 250 km from Baku to a remote colony. Their lawyer says the move amounts to political pressure and violates Article 8 of the European Convention! instituteforhumanrights.org/post/abzas-med…

🕯️ On this day we remember Vidadi Iskenderli — #Azerbaijani blogger & human rights activist, dissident, and exile in France — murdered in 2024. His murder was politically motivated, yet those responsible remain unprosecuted instituteforhumanrights.org/post/the-price…

❌ İlham Əliyev Kopenhagendə keçirilən ASB Sammitinə gələrək Azərbaycanda insan haqları vəziyyəti və rekord sayda siyasi məhbuslar barədə suallarımıza cavab vermədi #EPC #eu2025dk

📣 IHR delivered a powerful speech at the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council , denouncing #Azerbaijan’s 🇦🇿 escalating crackdown on political prisoners, journalists, and civil society.

❗️ “Never been more hostile” — IRFS rep. EMIN HUSEYNOV sounded the alarm at the OSCE in Warsaw on the collapse of media freedom in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 irfs.org/news-feed/irfs…

Solitary confinement kills slowly! Bahruz has already attempted suicide twice. ‼️ Each time, he was saved at the last moment. We call on #Azerbaijani 🇦🇿 authorities to end Bahruz’s isolation now, ensure his access to medical & mental care

🚨 Hazırda #Azərbaycanda 🇦🇿 həbs cəzası çəkən müxalifətçi siyasətçi Tofiq Yaqublu, WORLD LIBERTY CONGRESS tərəfindən “Cəsarət” mükafatına layiq görülüb. instituteforhumanrights.org/az/post/tofiq-…

🇩🇰 IRFS is participating at the Copenhagen Conference on Information Integrity at the UN City Copenhagen, organized by IMS and Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 We are honored to be among the leading experts on countering disinformation and enhancing resilience to emerging digital challenges

🙏🏼 Aziz Orujov, the head of the online television channel Kanal-13, was released after completing a two-year prison sentence IHR welcomes his release and urges 🇦🇿authorities to drop all remaining charges and end the persecution of independent journalists instituteforhumanrights.org/post/head-of-k…

❌ “Ali Karimli wasn’t ‘detained’ - he was taken out of the political arena by force. This arrest exposes a regime so afraid of dissent that it treats opposition leaders like criminals. When a government targets dissent instead of corruption, it shows exactly where the real

Ali Karimli has been thrown into pre-trial detention on absurd “coup plot” charges - one of the many tactics #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿uses every time it wants to silence dissent. The criminalization of opposition in the country has escalated to a new level!

PACE's Azadeh Rojhan has expressed deep concern over the pre-trial detention in #Azerbaijan of AXCP🇦🇿 Azərbaycan Xalq Cəbhəsi Partiyası leader Ali Karimli. She urged authorities to "swiftly review" the charges against him and ensure he is treated in line with #ECHR standards. More: pace.coe.int/en/news/10132/…

👏🏼 Very insightful and productive Eastern Partnership Civil Society Summit has come to an end! It was a great chance to reconnect with the civil society representatives across the Eastern Europe, EU policymakers, journalists, donors and many other stakeholders. The new