Istanbul Convention

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Judge ‘murders wife’ in Baku

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Judge Fagan Ahmadov of the Sabunchu District Court in Baku has allegedly shot dead his wife with a shotgun. According to a statement from the Prosecutor General’s Office, Ahmadov shot dead Ahmadova Parvana Suleyman on 30 May. Ahmadov was not immediately arrested because of the immunity granted to judges. He has since been remanded into pretrial arrest. The Sabunchu District Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case as deliberate murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 years in p

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Azerbaijan

After grisly murder, women hold protest in Baku

by Hamida Giyasbayli

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Feminists in Azerbaijan held a rally in front of the Government House holding posters that read ‘the murder of women is political’. The protest comes one week after the brutal killing of a woman in Baku. Despite the dire situation facing Azerbaijan’s women, the State Committee for Family, Women and Children ‘does not take any serious action or report on the current situation’, one of the protestors told Voice of America. Police arrived at the scene and took the posters from the feminists

Domestic Violence

Georgia ratifies Istanbul Convention

by OC Media

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Georgia’s Parliament voted 81 to 0 to ratify the Istanbul Convention against violence against women on 4 May, after an almost two-year long process. Ratification of the convention involves amending 24 separate Georgian laws. Human rights organisations have been urging the government to accelerate the ratification process, in the belief that it would help counter the frequency of violence against women in Georgia. Femicide has recently come under increased attention in Georgia, after a num