Topic: Azerbaijan Human Rights Violations

By Aytan Farhadova The Baku Grave Crimes Court has sentenced Azerbaijani researcher, peace activist, and OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov to 15 years in prison on charges of treason. The[...]

WASHINGTON — Those of us in the diaspora are seeing increasingly worrisome pictures from the trials of Karabakh (Artsakh) Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The trials, near-universally acknowledged as shams,[...]

GENEVA (Panorama.am) — On Monday, March 3, at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for the immediate release[...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Armenia on November 13 after visiting neighboring Georgia. Thunberg in the past week has taken actions and spoken out[...]

By Greta Thunberg During rapidly escalating climate and humanitarian crises, another authoritarian petrostate with no respect for human rights is hosting COP29 — the UN’s latest annual climate summit that[...]

By Luca Amin LONDON (Democracy for Sale) — A lobbying firm with close links to senior British politicians and the oil industry is being paid $4.7 million to help Azerbaijan’s[...]

WASHINGTON (Panorama.am) — In a post on November 4 on the platform previously known as Twitter Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey said the upcoming COP29 climate gathering in Baku should be used[...]

By Damian Carrington LONDON (The Guardian) — Azerbaijan, the host of the COP29 global climate summit, will see a large expansion of fossil gas production in the next decade, a[...]

TBILISI (Reuters) — Lawyers for Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh who is now detained in Azerbaijan, on Thursday, October 3, filed legal actions[...]

BAKU (BBC) — An oil and gas exporter that does not separate its waste and jails journalists and human rights activists will host a major international conference on climate change[...]