Azerbaijan: Relentless Crackdown on Opposition

Click to expand Image Rally participants gather in front of the parliament building, Baku, Azerbaijan, July 14, 2020. © 2020 Aziz Karimov (Berlin) – Azerbaijani authorities arrested numerous opposition activists and leaders on spurious criminal charges following a July 14, 2020 unsanctioned rally in Baku, Human Rights Watch said today. Thousands of people gathered that day to support the country’s armed forces amid an escalation of military tensions with neighboring Armenia. The charges range from violating lockdown rules related to the Covid-19 pandemic to destruction of property and…

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