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Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

Europe shows support for Azerbaijan’s threatened independent ...
29 June 2009

Amnesty International members across Europe join in a day of action as part of the organization’s solidarity campaign with independent journalists and human rights ...

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Azerbaijan: Independent journalists under siege
29 June 2009

Following the murder of a prominent newspaper editor in March 2005, President Ilham Aliyev stated that “the rights of every journalist and print worker, irrespective ...

Document       EUR 55/004/2009

Azerbaijan: Amnesty International in support of independent ...
29 June 2009

Amnesty International members across Europe take to the streets in support ofindependent media in Azerbaijan which is coming under increasingpressure from ...

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Azerbaijan: Proposed amendments threaten media, civil society
18 June 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. ARTICLE 19. Human Rights Watch. International PEN. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 55/005/2009. 18 June 2009. AZERBAIJAN ...

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No freedom – journalists stopped from doing their jobs | Amnesty ...
3 May 2009

Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day inwhich journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasingnumbers of their colleagues ...

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Azerbaijan journalist pardoned after almost three years in prison ...
16 April 2009

Sakit Zahidov was considered a prisoner of conscience. It is thought that he was imprisoned to silence his critical reporting of the authorities.

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Azerbaijan urged to release three young men after unfair trial ...
13 March 2009

All three are reported to have been beaten and otherwise ill-treated while in detention. Two have already been detained for four years.

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Azerbaijan: Call for the immediate release of Dmitri Pavlov ...
13 March 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 55/002/2009. 13 March 2009. CALL FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF DMITRI PAVLOV, MAKSIM ...

Document       EUR 55/002/2009

Charges dropped against Azerbaijani activist | Amnesty ...
5 March 2009

The Azerbaijani authorities have dropped a defamation suit against a prominent human rights defender.

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AZERBAIJAN: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WELCOMES WITHDRAWAL OF ACTION ...
4 March 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 55/001/2009. 4 March 2009. AZERBAIJAN: amnesty international welcomes withdrawal ...

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