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Azerbaijan cuts public funding for newspapers

11 February 2019 by Kamran Mahmudov

(report.az)

The Azer­bai­jani State Fund to Support Devel­op­ment of the Mass Media has raised the eli­gi­bil­i­ty require­ments for news­pa­pers to receive support, effec­tive­ly cutting off support for most news­pa­pers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Azerbaijan, freedom of expression, freedom of media, freedom of speech, journalists, media, newspapers

Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

31 January 2019 by OC Media

Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

Thomas de Waal, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and a prolific writer on the South Caucasus recently sat down with OC Media. He discussed democracy in Abkhazia and the inter­na­tion­al community’s role there, and the recent thaw in relations between Armenia and Azer­bai­jan.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, conflict, georgia, ilham aliyev, nagorno-karabakh, nikol pashinyan, peace, south ossetia, thomas de waal

Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

29 January 2019 by Javid Agha

Javid Agha is an Ankara-based writer and social media observer focusing on Armenia and Azer­bai­jan, whose writing has been featured across the web including on the BBC. He is editor of Azer­bai­jani art and culture platform, VarYox.

In Azer­bai­jan, as in Armenia, remem­brance of the victims of past atroc­i­ties often takes on a one-sided nature. Despite attempts to twist and politi­cise such events to serve nation­al­ist causes, a more com­pas­sion­ate approach is needed to move forward, and a remem­brance that above all, innocent victims are always sacred.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, baku, black january, commemoration, history, nagorno-karabakh, nationalism, peace, pogrom, propaganda, sumgait, sumgayit, whataboutism, yerevan

Azerbaijan calls for ‘urgent measures’ after Karabakh veteran statue unveiled in Georgian village

25 January 2019 by OC Media

(Embassy of Armenia in Georgia)

The Georgian ambas­sador to Azer­bai­jan has been summoned to the Azer­bai­jani Foreign Ministry after reports emerged that a statue of an ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran was renovated in a Georgian village. Azer­bai­jan called on Georgia to ‘take urgent measures’, while Georgia’s Foreign Ministry told OC Media that ‘making a scandal out of this is unac­cept­able’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, georgia, karabakh war, nagorno-karabakh, nagorny karabakh

Charges dropped against Huseynov after thousands rally in Baku

21 January 2019 by OC Media

(Meydan TV)

The Azer­bai­jani author­i­ties have dropped new charges against impris­oned anti-cor­rup­tion blogger Mehman Huseynov following large protests in the capital. Thousands gathered in Baku on Saturday calling for Huseynov’s release and an end to political pros­e­cu­tions and cor­rup­tion in the country.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Azerbaijan, human rights, hunger stri, ilham aliyev, mehman huseynov, Musuvat, political prisoners, protest, REAL

Mass hunger strikes in Azerbaijan against ‘political prosecutions’

15 January 2019 by Gulnur Kazimova

Members of the oppo­si­tion Musavat party on hunger strike (Khadija Ismay­ilo­va / Facebook)

At least 20 people both in prison and on the outside are now on hunger strike in Azer­bai­jan in protest against political pros­e­cu­tions in the country, local activists say. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: amnesty international, Azerbaijan, Elman Fattah, freedom house, human rights, human rights house, human rights watch, hunger strike, khadija ismayilova, mehman huseynov, Musavat, political prisoners, Tofig Yagublu

Azerbaijani blogger’s hunger strike enters 13th day

8 January 2019 by Gulnur Kazimova

Mehman Huseynov (coe.int)

A hunger strike by impris­oned anti-cor­rup­tion blogger Mehman Huseynov has entered it’s 13th day in Azer­bai­jan.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Azerbaijan, human rights, hunger strike, mehman huseynov

Taxes, corruption, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey: Pashinyan’s vision for the ‘New Armenia’

14 December 2018 by Shota Kincha

Having swept to power in a landslide electoral victory, the new gov­ern­ment of rev­o­lu­tion­ary leader Nikol Pashinyan is now laying out its vision for a ‘New Armenia’ — with ambitious plans for peace and reform.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, conflict, corruption, ilham aliyev, nagorno-karabakh, nikol pashinyan, recep tayyip erdoğan, turkey, yerevan

‘Banned without explanation’: The special prohibitions faced by Azerbaijan’s ‘political prisoners’

11 December 2018 by Gulnur Kazimova

A poster saying ‘Freedom to political prisoners’ (Voice of America)

While Azerbaijan’s author­i­ties deny that there are political prisoners in the country’s prisons at all — local and inter­na­tion­al rights groups disagree. Many former prisoners and their families complain that those locked up on political grounds face not only an unjust depri­va­tion of their liberty, but special pro­hi­bi­tions such as on reading and speaking with their families.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: afgan mukhtarli, Azerbaijan, human rights, Ilkin Rustamzadeh, İlkin Rüstəmzadə, mukhtarli, political prisoners

Georgian Muslim leader detained in Azerbaijan

16 November 2018 by Shota Kincha

Mirtaghi Asadov (Facebook)

Georgian Shia Muslim leader and frequent gov­ern­ment critic Mirtaghi Asadov was arrested in Azer­bai­jan last week under unclear cir­cum­stances. Local rights groups have ques­tioned the Azer­bai­jani Gov­ern­ment account of his arrest and demanded Georgia intervene. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Azerbaijan, georgia, islam, Mirtaghi Asadov, muslims, shia

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