Content tagged with Freedom of expression and information
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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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Resource | Case Summary | 3 Oct 2017 | By Maryam Mamilova
Novaya Gazeta and Milashina v Russia
In August 2000, a nuclear submarine ‘Kursk’ sank in the Barents Sea due to a massive explosion that ripped open its front end. Another explosion quickly followed, which was felt as far away as Alaska. Russian officials declared all 118 crew members dead.
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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.
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The ‘Foreign Agents Act’ is stifling independent civil society
Almost six years after the Russian parliament enacted legislation requiring any organisation receiving funding from abroad to register as ‘foreign agents’, EHRAC and Memorial HRC, alongside a consortium of other NGOs, are challenging the Act’s purpose before the European Court.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Jun 2017 | By Emil Sahakyan
Bayev and others v Russia
The three applicants are gay rights activists, who were fined for holding demonstrations against laws banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ among minors.
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European Court questions SOCAR’s violent attack on Azerbaijani journalist
The European Court has asked the Azerbaijani Government to account for a serious physical and verbal assault on journalist Idrak Abbasov by SOCAR security officers in April 2012.
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Yale students conduct research for EHRAC case on internet restrictions in Azerbaijan
Students from Yale Law School are collaborating with EHRAC lawyers on a case challenging a block the government of Azerbaijan has placed on four news websites in Azerbaijan.
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Popular critical news sites challenge block by Azerbaijani Government
Four prominent independent or opposition news websites are challenging the Government’s and courts’ decision to block access to them in Azerbaijan.
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Renowned Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova challenges travel ban before European Court
Internationally acclaimed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova challenges the travel ban imposed on her by the Azerbaijani Government at the European Court.
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European Court to consider Azerbaijan’s responsibility in the murder of critical journalist Rafig Tagi
Mr Tagi was a well-known critic of the influence of Iran and Islam on Azerbaijan and had been threatened and imprisoned for his writings in the past, prior to his death in 2011.