Leyla Mustafayeva

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Əfqan Muxtarlı hadisəsi: istintaq dayandırılıb?

•6 min read

Sürgündəki Azərbaycanlı jurnalist Tbilisidə yoxa çıxıb, ertəsi gün Azərbaycanda istintaq təcridxanasında peyda olmuşdu. Onun qaçırılmasında Gürcüstan tərəfi şübhəli görünür. Muxtarlı məhkəmə boyunca Gürcüstan hökumətini kobudluqla və oğurluqda rolunda günahlandırırdı, Gürcüstan isə bu ittihamı inkar edir. Yerli hüquq müdafiəçilər də onun oğurlanması ilə bağlı istintaqın şəffaf və sürətli aparılmamasını dilə gətirirlər. Siyasi məhbus Əfqan Muxtarlıya ailə üzvlərinin yas mərasiminə qatl

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Siyasi məhbuslar hökümətin qorxusudur, yoxsa alver predimetidir?

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•9 min read

Azərbaycandakı siyasi məhbusların sayı Avropanın tərtib etdiyi siyahıda ən yüskək göstəricilər sırasındadı. Bu təzyiqlər təkcə jurnalistləri, aktivistləri və ya müxalifətçiləri qorxutmaq məqsədi daşımır, həm də xarici siyasətdə alver məsədi kimi də istifadə olunur. “Gəldiyimiz gündən atasını soruşur, deyir, ana daha biz də uzaqlara gəldik görəsən atam da burdadır?!” Bu sözləri hazırda həbsdə olan siyasi məhbus Əfqan Muxtarlının yoldaşı araşdırmaçı jurnalist Leyla Mustafayeva deyir. Bil

Afgan Mukhtarli

A government’s fear or bargaining chips — Political prisoners in Azerbaijan

by Gulnur Kazimova

•5 min read

The number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan is among the highest in Europe. This repression serves not only as a tactic of intimidating journalists, activists, and the opposition, but also an instrument of foreign policy. Investigative journalist Leyla Mustafayeva is married to political prisoner Afgan Mukhtarli. Their three-year-old daughter Nuray is unaware of her father’s imprisonment; she believes what her mother told her, that her father is simply a long way away. She and her mo

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Wife of kidnapped journalist Mukhtarli seeks asylum in Germany

by OC Media

•2 min read

Azerbaijani journalist Leyla Mustafayeva, whose husband, investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli was abducted in Georgia and taken to Azerbaijan, has left the country with her daughter. She plans to request asylum in Germany. Mustafayeva left Tbilisi on 11 October fearing the threats she is exposed to, the family’s lawyer Archi Chopikashvili says. On 12 October Chopikashvili told OC Media that Mustafayeva is not planning to return and will apply for asylum in Germany. ‘Due to our di

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‘Unwell’ abducted Azerbaijani journalist Mukhtarli denied bail

by OC Media

•2 min read

A court in Baku has denied bail to Afgan Mukhtarli, an Azerbaijani journalist abducted from Tbilisi in May. His lawyers say they plan to appeal the decision. According to his lawyer Zibeyda Sadigova, Mukhtarli suffers from diabetes and heart disease and has been denied proper treatment in jail. Sadigova appealed to Baku’s Nasimi District Court on 28 September with a motion to release the journalist on bail. According to her, the defence had two reasons to ask the court for granting Mukhta

Afgan Mukhtarli

Afgan Mukhtarli’s health ‘worsened’, denied access to hospital

by OC Media

•2 min read

The health condition of Afgan Mukhtarli, the Azerbaijani journalist abducted from Tbilisi on 29 May and currently kept in a jail in Baku, has been getting worse and he has not been transferred to a hospital, Mukhtarli’s wife Leyla Mustafayeva told Tbilisi-based news outlet On.ge on 26 June. ‘He cannot stay in jail. He did not even get the medicine prescribed by the doctor after the medical examination (…) ‘I think he will not be taken to the hospital. They [the authorities] just want to har

Afgan Mukhtarli

Parliamentary majority ‘to discuss’ Mukhtarli’s case with Interior Minister

by OC Media

•2 min read

Members of Georgia’s parliamentary majority will meet with the interior minister to discuss Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who was abducted from Tbilisi to Baku on 29 May. Both countries have remained largely silent about the details of the abduction, and it is still unclear exactly how the self-exiled journalist ended up in Azerbaijan. Earlier on 16 June, the head of parliament’s Euro-integration Committee Tamar Khulordava said that ‘nothing can be excluded during the investigatio