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Azerbaijan: Up to six years for "insulting the president"
19 June 1995

News Service 114/95. AI INDEX: EUR 55/06/95. AZERBAIJAN: UP TO SIX YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR "INSULTING THE PRESIDENT". Four journalists ...

Press Release       EUR 55/006/1995

Amnesty International News, January 1995. Vol.25, No.1.
1 January 1995

1. Indonesia: Police crack down on protesters; 2. Mexico: New president faces troubled human rights legacy; 3. AI harassed in Middle East; 4. Syria: AI raises 1000 ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/001/1995

UA 224/94 - Azerbaydzhan: Elman Hasanov and his son Elshan Elman ...
9 June 1994

Elman and Elshan Hasanov were sentenced to death for the murder of seven people on 8 June 1994 by the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan. As there is no court of higher ...

Urgent Action       EUR 55/011/1994

UA 211/94 - Azerbaydzhan (self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh ...
2 June 1994

Yury Viktorovich Bilichenko, an airforce pilot from the Ukraine, was sentenced to death by a military tribunal in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ...

Urgent Action       EUR 55/010/1994

Azerbaydzhan: Hostages in the context of the Karabakh conflict ...
31 May 1994

This document provides further information on cases of hostage taking described in "Azerbaydzhan: Hostages in the Karabakh conflict: civilians continue to pay the ...

Report       EUR 55/012/1994

Azerbaydzhani Republic: Olga Gareginovna Arutyunova
18 March 1994

Olga Arutyunova, whose name indicates ethnic Armenian origin, was detained by police in Baku on 4 February 1994. At the time of writing no criminal charge is known ...

Report       EUR 55/004/1994

Azerbaydzhani Republic: Gagik Arutyunian, Garnik Arustamyan, Arvid ...
20 December 1993

The four ethnic Armenians named above were sentenced to death in Baku in March 1993 for the murder of an Azeri journalist and three military personnel in the disputed ...

Report       EUR 55/040/1993

EXTRA 91/93 - Azerbaydzhan: death penalty / fear of imminent ...
1 November 1993

The above men were sentenced to death on 30 November 1990 for banditism. The limited information currently available suggests that an appeal against their sentence ...

Urgent Action       EUR 55/036/1993

Amnesty International News, October 1993. Vol.23, No.7.
30 September 1993

1. North Korea: Evidence of systematic abuses emerges. 2. Tunisia: Deaths in custody linked to torture. 3. The former USSR: Homosexual sex decriminalized in three ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/007/1993

Further information on EXTRA 46/93 (EUR 55/18/93, 14 May) ...
26 September 1993

The Azerbaydzhani parliament voted on 3 September 1993 to hand over to Russia the five servicemen named above, who had been sentenced to death by the Military Collegium ...

Urgent Action       EUR 55/035/1993