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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

Georgian authorities ‘investigating’ media giant Palitra

27 September 2018 by OC Media

(Palitra.ge)

The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has ordered media holding group Palitra Media to hand over all documents related to their legal, account­ing, financial, and economic activ­i­ties over the last four years. Palitra Media announced that inves­ti­ga­tors visited their Colorpack printing house on Monday with a court order demanding the files, including cor­re­spon­dences, from 2014 to September 2018. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: amnesty international, bidzina ivanishvili, Cartu Bank, colorpack, corruption, Dimitri Kumsishvili, freedom house, georgian dream, human rights watch, IneterPressNews, Kviris Palitra, media freedom, Palitra, Palitra news, produce in georgia

Georgian leaders fire back after Freedom House criticism on democracy

13 April 2018 by OC Media

(OC Media)

Leaders from the ruling Georgian Dream party have crit­i­cised American rights watchdog Freedom House, for sug­gest­ing democracy declined in the country in 2017. ‘Absurd, unob­jec­tive and amusing’ were some of the words PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Par­lia­ment chairman Irakli Kobakhidze used to describe their 2018 Nations in Transit report, which said informal gov­er­nance was ‘one of the key features of GD’s rule’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: corruption, democracy, freedom house, freedom of media, georgia, kobakhidze, kvirikashvili, nations in transit, queer, report, tbilisi

Freedom House: Democracy declines across the Caucasus

13 April 2018 by OC Media

(Freedom House)

Democracy declines in the Caucasus with ‘half-hearted reforms’ in Georgia, improper inves­ti­ga­tion of high-level cor­rup­tion in Armenia, ‘deeply entrenched’ author­i­tar­i­an­ism in Azer­bai­jan, and a crackdown on queer people in the North Caucasus, according to American right group Freedom House’s Nations in Transit 2018 report. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Armenia, authoritarianism, Azerbaijan, corruption, democracy, freedom house, freedom of media, georgia, north caucasus, queer, report

Crimea, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan ‘least free places in Europe’

16 January 2018 by OC Media

Freedom in the World 2018 report

Crimea, South Ossetia, and Azer­bai­jan have been ranked the least free places in Europe, in the latest edition of American rights group Freedom House’s Freedom in the World report. The report measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights across the world.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, Armenia, artsakh, Azerbaijan, chechnya, crimea, freedom, freedom house, georgia, nagorno-karabakh, north caucasus, russia, samachablo, south ossetia, tskhinvali

Freedom House: Internet Freedom ‘declines in Armenia and Azerbaijan’

15 November 2017 by OC Media

(Freedom House)

Internet Freedom in Azer­bai­jan and Armenia have slightly dete­ri­o­rat­ed while Georgia has slightly strength­ened its position, according to a recent Freedom House report. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, freedom house, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, georgia, media

Azerbaijan’s Turan news agency investigated for ‘tax evasion’

11 August 2017 by OC Media

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Taxes initiated criminal pro­ceed­ings against inde­pen­dant Baku-based news agency the Turan Infor­ma­tion Agency, on 7 August, according to them. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Azerbaijan, freedom house, freedom of expression, freedom of media, freedom of speech, media, reporters without borders, turan

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