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Top stories in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia from 28 April-2 May, 2025

Azerbaijan-Armenia-Georgia

May 02, 2025

Daily morning roundup: top stories in local media, commentary, trending photos and videos

Amnesty International Director: 'I don't recall any parliament, other than Georgia's, passing repressive laws so quickly'

Georgia

March 06, 2025

Denis Krivosheev: "Those responsible for violence against protesters must be held accountable."

Amnesty International calls on Georgian authorities to immediately release detained protesters 

Georgia

January 14, 2025

"The laws effectively criminalise even symbolic acts of protest, such as placing stickers on public property."

ECHR rules Azerbaijan must pay 20,000 euros to Azerbaijani investigative journalist for unjust arrest

February 28, 2020

Khadija Ismailova was sentenced to seven and a half years on false charges and conditionally released in 2016

Police tell Azerbaijani activist he cannot be protected from ‘president's admirers’

April 03, 2019

Former prisoner of conscience Qiyas Ibrahimov was called in to the police department for a “preventive conversation”

Azerbaijani journalist kidnapped from Tbilisi demands right to call family by Skype

November 08, 2018

The law does not explicitly allow or forbid this kind of communication for inmates

Amnesty International calls on Georgia not to extradite Demirel college manager to Turkey

May 28, 2017

According to the organization, if extradited to Turkey, Mustafa Çabuk will be subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment

Human rights abuses in the Caucasus – findings by Amnesty International

February 23, 2017

Watchdog reports prisoners of conscience in Azerbaijan, break-ups of peaceful demonstrations in Armenia, thwarted justice in Georgia, war crimes in Ukraine and Russia