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Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. Photo: Bakhtiyar Hajiyev/Facebook.
Azerbaijan

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev ends hunger strike after release of intimate images

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by Ismi Aghayev

Imprisoned activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev stopped his hunger strike the day after intimate photographs, videos, and messages were leaked from his private accounts. Hajiyev had been on hunger strike against his detention for 50 days, since 9 January.  His lawyer, Agil Lajic, said Hajiyev had ended his hunger strike after taking into account public opinion. He said Hajiyev would soon receive food at the detention centre he is being held in. ‘[Hajiyev] thanked everyone who supported him. The lega

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. Photo: Bakhtiyar Hajiyev/Facebook.
Azerbaijan

Intimate footage of imprisoned Azerbaijani activist leaked

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by Ismi Aghayev

Private messages and intimate images and videos have been leaked from the accounts of Azerbaijani activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, who remains on hunger strike against his imprisonment. On 24 February, private materials including messages with women, including other activists, selfies sent in these chats, nude photographs, and intimate videos were published in a Telegram channel that appeared to have been created for that purpose.  It came on the same day that Hajiyev’s pre-trial detention was ex

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. Image via Facebook.
Azerbaijan

Baku court extends detention of hunger-striking activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev

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by Yousef Bardouka

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, an imprisoned social activist on hunger strike, has had his pre-trial detention extended for two months amid domestic and international concern for his deteriorating health condition. On Thursday, the Khatai District Court of Baku extended Hajiyev’s detention until 28 April. Hajiyev, who has been on hunger strike for 47 days, was detained on 9 December on charges of hooliganism and contempt of court; he was due to be released on 28 February. One of his lawyers, Shahla Hu

Afieddin Mammadov (left) and Samir Sultanov (right) of Democracy 1918. Photo: Ulviyya Ali.
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani activists arrested at pro-Hajiyev protest

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by Ismi Aghayev

Azerbaijani police arrested two members of the Democracy 1918 movement and detained three other activists for holding a protest demanding the release of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, an imprisoned social activist on hunger strike. On Monday, the police dispersed a group of activists that were protesting in front of the  Baku Court of Appeals against the court’s decision to uphold Bakhtiyar Hajiyev’s detention. Hajiyev, a social activist, has been imprisoned since 9 December on charges of hooliganism, a

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev standing next graffiti calling for his release after he was arrested in 2012 for evading military service. Image via Facebook.
Azerbaijan

Washington calls for the release of imprisoned Azerbaijani activist Hajiyev

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by Ismi Aghayev

The US Department of State has called for the release of the imprisoned human rights activist Bakhtiyav Hajiyev, who is over a month into a hunger strike. ‘We are deeply troubled that Azerbaijani activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev has remained in detention since the eve of International Human Rights Day last December and that he continues to face charges widely understood as politically motivated,’ read a statement issued Saturday by the department’s spokesperson Ned Price. Price cited Hajiyev’s med

Orkhan Bakhishli. Image via Facebook.
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani opposition member arrested for disobeying police

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by Ismi Aghayev

A member of the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party has been arrested on charges of disobeying police. Orkhan Bakhishli was arrested on Thursday and sentenced later that day to 30 days of administrative arrest by the Khatai District Court in Baku. Bakhishli’s mother, Kamala Rahimli, told RFE/RL that a police officer had taken photos of Bakhishli the day before, while he was giving an interview to a journalist outside the trial of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. Hajiyev was arrested on 9 December on charges

Ramzan Kadyrov training in his personal gym, wearing an ‘Akhmat Sila’ t-shirt. Photo: Ramzan Kadyrov/Instagram
Azerbaijan

Podcast | Sports and ‘the Path of Akhmat’ and the political activists imprisoned in Azerbaijan

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Loujaine Laamal, an MA student in geopolitics at the French Institute of Geopolitics, discusses Ramzan Kadyrov’s politicisation of sports in Chechnya, and his attempts to construct a national identity focused on sportsmanship to help secure the future of his regime. Read more: * Analysis | How Kadyrov uses ‘the Path of Akhmat’ in sports to cement his rule in Chechnya Ismi Aghayev talks about imprisoned political activists and figures in Azerbaijan who claim they have

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