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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan’s blocking of websites is a sign of further restrictions onlineThis month has seen yet another series of attacks on internet freedom.
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Published in: oDRInjustice for all: how Azerbaijan’s bar association was reduced to tattersA strong and independent legal community is the most significant obstacle to the arbitrariness of authoritarian rule.
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Published in: oDRImpatient dictators: how snap elections shore up authoritarianism in EurasiaAuthoritarian states are using all-too familiar constitutional mechanisms to consolidate power.
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan’s digital crackdown requires a political solutionFraming Azerbaijan’s online campaign to harass journalists and activists as a “technical” problem only distracts...
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Published in: oDRRule of law contacts with Azerbaijan must raise human rights abuseThe authoritarian regime of Azerbaijan remains a member of many international bodies, but this is often not a...
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijani mafia in the heart of Europe?An apparent clash between Azerbaijani organised crime groups in southern France raises questions around EU...
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Published in: oDRCould a hashtag challenge the Aliyev regime?Azerbaijan's political migrants are behind a new public campaign to draw attention to authoritarian rule at home....
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Published in: oDRA new era of crimes against humanity in EurasiaA wave of brutal crackdowns on LGBT communities in the post-Soviet space has exposed civil society’s shortcomings —...
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan’s authoritarianism goes digital2018 is an election year in Azerbaijan. The authorities may have the streets on lockdown, but the fight against...
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan’s unlucky lawyersBaku-based lawyer Samed Rahimli discusses new changes in Azerbaijan that are set to make life (even more) difficult...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom the boat race to Azerbaijani jails: how dirty gas sells itself to elitesA new report exposes the network of lobbying and hypocrisy that risks locking Europe into decades of unnecessary...
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Published in: oDR“We don’t want to be invisible”: the meaning of Azerbaijan’s LGBT purgeIn late September Azerbaijan’s police rounded up and detained dozens of LGBT people. What explains this sudden crackdown?
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Published in: oDRRevenge by red notice: how Azerbaijan targets its critics abroadThe Azerbaijani authorities are using international criminal warrants to pursue their critics abroad. It looks like...
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Published in: oDRStopping the spin from Azerbaijan’s very special laundromatWe all know about Baku’s international efforts to whitewash criticism of human rights abuses. What makes these...
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Published in: oDRArmenia and Azerbaijan’s collision course over Nagorno-KarabakhSound principles for conflict resolution over Nagorno-Karabakh exist. But mistrust, a gulf between mediators and the...
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Published in: oDRTurkey’s fight against Gülen in the South CaucasusThe Turkish authorities’ fight against real and imagined enemies in the Gülen movement has now reached Azerbaijan...
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Published in: oDRWalking free in AzerbaijanIt’s easy to celebrate when Azerbaijan’s political prisoners are released. But ensnared by public stigma and...
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Published in: oDRA culinary conflict in the South CaucasusHow national cuisines became yet another battlefield in the enmity between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Русский
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijani journalist kidnapped across Georgia-Azerbaijan borderThe kidnapping of an Azerbaijani investigative journalist in broad daylight in Tbilisi raises questions about how...
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Published in: oDRIs Georgia still safe for Azerbaijani dissidents?Georgia has long been an oasis for dissidents from neighbouring Azerbaijan. But with Baku investing in its western...
