Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Azerbaijan Uses Old Criminal Case to Ramp Up Repression

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police outside the building of Toplum TV, independent online media outlet, where law enforcement searched the offices and detained journalists, in Baku, Azerbaijan, March 6, 2024. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images In an effort to annihilate independent activism, Azerbaijani authorities have reopened a 2014 criminal investigation that led to the country’s most sweeping crackdown on human rights defenders and journalists in recent history.The 2014 investigation, reopened last month, targeted international donors and their grantees that operated in Azerbaijan with bogus…

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