Journalists in Azerbaijan face trials, jailings, travel bans

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Journalists in Azerbaijan face trials, jailings, travel bans

More than a dozen journalists are imprisoned in Azerbaijan and others are questioned about their work, analysts say

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Armenia NGOs call for international monitoring of trials of detainees in Azerbaijan

Nineteen Armenian human rights NGOs and individual advocates on Friday jointly appealed to international organizations and foreign ambassadors in Azerbaijan, urging them to oversee the trials of Armenian detainees in Baku. Criminal hearings are currently underway in Baku involving former leaders of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. All the defendants, who are ethnic Armenians, face charges under various articles of Azerbaijan’s crimina…

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Azerbaijan: Authorities must ensure fair trial rights of Ruben Vardanyan and investigate claims of rights violations

Reacting to the start of a trial of Ruben Vardanyan, a former de facto State Minister in Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region which Azerbaijan brought back under its full control in 2023, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said:“The Azerbaijani authorities claim they have put Ruben Vardanyan on trial to ensure accountability for crimes of which they accused him. But by denying him his fair trial ri…

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Seventeen political prisoners, captured by the Azeri army during its lightning conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023, will appear before a military court in Baku from this Friday. Source

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Trial For Former Leader Of Nagorno-Karabakh Set To Open In Azerbaijan

The trial of Ruben Vardanyan, the former de facto prime minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, on charges of terrorism, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the state of Azerbaijan is set to begin on January 17 in Baku.

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Former Karabakh official protests on eve of trial in Azerbaijan

A former top official in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh protested on the eve of his trial before an Azerbaijani military court on Friday that he had not been given enough time to prepare his defence on 42 charges including terrorism.