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Azerbaijani Popular Front Party member sentenced to five years in prison
Mehman Aliyev accused the police of planting drugs on him, and announced that he would begin a hunger strike.
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Activist arrested after spraying ‘Stalin’ on Heydar Aliyev statue sentenced to six years
Azerbaijani police have sentenced an activist arrested in August after spraying the name ‘Stalin’ on a Heydar Aliyev statue to six years in prison on drug charges. The Baku Criminal Court sentenced 23-year-old Elbayi Karimli, a member of the opposition Popular Front Party, on Saturday. His lawyer, Nemat Karimli (unrelated to Elbayi Karimli), told OC Media that his client was arrested in August 2023 shortly after spraying Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s name on a statue of Heydar Aliyev, the
2024 Azerbaijani Presidential Elections
Azerbaijan’s main opposition parties boycott the presidential elections
Azerbaijan’s largest opposition parties have vowed to boycott February’s presidential elections, citing repression and the lack of a democratic environment in the country. On Saturday, the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party announced they would not take part in the snap elections scheduled for February, citing Azerbaijan’s ‘current atmosphere of repression, mass arrests, and fear’. ‘The extraordinary election scheduled by [President] Ilham Aliyev for 7 February 2024 will not be an actual electi
2024 Azerbaijani Presidential Elections
Aliyev announces snap presidential elections for February
President Ilham Aliyev has announced that Azerbaijan will hold snap presidential elections on 7 February 2024, a year before his fourth term as president ends. Aliyev has served as Azerbaijan’s president since October 2003. In 2009, a public referendum removed a limit on the number of terms that a president could serve. Another referendum held in 2016 extended the presidential terms to seven years. The 2016 referendum also created the office of vice president, a position that has been held
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani opposition activist given 30 days in prison
A prominent member of the Azerbaijani opposition group the Popular Front Party has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest after taking part in a protest in Baku. Rovshan Mammadov was detained on 11 November during a demonstration organised by the party. He was convicted the following day of disobeying police. The demonstration in front of the Baku City Executive Power was organised to demand freedom of assembly, the reopening of Azerbaijan’s land borders, the release of politica
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Imprisoned Azerbaijani Popular Front member goes on hunger strike
A prominent member of Azerbaijan’s opposition Popular Front has been on hunger strike for nearly a week demanding that the authorities release him. Saleh Rustamli, a veteran of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, was sentenced to seven years in prison in February 2019 on money laundering charges. Rustamli served as the head of the Gadabay region under the presidency of Abulfaz Elchibey. Since 1998, he has been living in Russia. He was arrested in the city of Shamkir while visiting Azerbaijan in
Azerbaijan
First opposition protest since the war held in Azerbaijan
Around a dozen people have protested outside the prison hospital in Baku demanding the release of a member of the Popular Front Party who is on hunger strike. Tuesday’s protest was broken up by police soon after it began, with at least 11 people, including journalists, detained. The protest was the first demonstration organised by an Azerbaijani opposition party since the end of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The protesters were demanding the release of Niyamaddin Ahmadov, a member of th
