Content tagged with Civil society repression
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Resource | Case Summary | 10 Jan 2019 | By Roman Kiselyov
Khadija Ismayilova v Azerbaijan
Award-winning Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova received threats, and was secretly filmed and recorded, with the authorities failing to take action.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Sep 2018 | By Olga Grygorovska
Aliyev v Azerbaijan
Prominent human rights defender Intigam Aliyev was arrested on spurious charges in 2014, detained and convicted, as punishment for his work.
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Resource | Case Summary | 6 Dec 2018 | By Harriet Bland
Haziyev v Azerbaijan
Journalist Seymur Haziyev was punched in the face by a stranger, and after he hit the assailant in defence, he was detained and charged with hooliganism.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Jul 2018 | By Olga Okhotnikova
Mariya Alekhina and others (Pussy Riot) v Russia
The applicants – Mariya Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich – are members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk band critical of the Kremlin and its connections with the Orthodox church. Five members of the band attempted to perform a protest song in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
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Resource | Case Summary | 7 Jun 2018 | By Giulio Pagano
Rashad Hasanov and others v Azerbaijan
The four applicants were members of NIDA, a civic movement that seeks liberty, justice, truth and change in Azerbaijan through peaceful means. They were arrested and charged for allegedly obtaining 22 Molotov cocktails and supplying them to two other NIDA members, who had been arrested earlier in March.
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Resource | Case Summary | 19 Apr 2018 | By Olga Grygorovksa
Mammadli v Azerbaijan
The applicant, Anar Mammadli, is a civil society activist and human rights defender who founded the NGO Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre. He has reported on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan before the Council of Europe and in cooperation with UN institutions.
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Ten years in prison for graffiti on a statue of Heydar Aliyev
When 21-year-old Bayram Mammadov and 22-year-old Giyas Ibrahimov sprayed graffiti on a statue of Azerbaijan’s former president, Heydar Aliyev, they may have expected a police warning or a fine. Instead, they found themselves arrested on trumped-up drugs charges, beaten and threatened until they confessed.
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Intigam Aliyev’s arrest and detention was to punish him for his human rights activism
The European Court found that Intigam Aliyev's treatment by the Azerbaijani authorities was politically motivated, and aimed at silencing and punishing him for his human rights activism.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Oct 2017 | By Harriet Bland
Navalnyye v Russia
Political activist Alexei Navalny, and his brother, Oleg Navalny, an entrepreneur, were convicted of fraud and money laundering by a Russian court on 30 December 2014. Alexei received a suspended sentence of three and a half years.
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Internet restrictions in Azerbaijan: Yale students conduct research for website blocking case
Students from Yale Law School have collaborated with EHRAC on a case challenging a block the government of Azerbaijan has placed on four news websites in Azerbaijan for publishing allegedly prohibited material.