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Azerbaijani president calls PACE resolution ‘scrap of paper’

February 06, 2020

President Aliyev said that the Council of Europe is ‘degrading’ and Azerbaijan will not comply with its requirements

Results of Azerbaijan municipal elections approved amid claims of falsification

January 13, 2020

Blogger Mehman Huseynov intends to bring a suit to the Supreme Court, while feminist candidate Rabiya Mammadova has been accused of ‘offensive behaviour’

Azerbaijani political emigrant detained in Poland on charges of tax evasion released on bail

January 09, 2020

He will be in Warsaw while the Polish prosecutor’s office carries out an investigation

Feminist activist elected to municipal body for first time in Azerbaijani elections

December 24, 2019

This is so far the only independent candidate known to have secured one spot of the 15,156 municipal positions up for elections

Independents, observers in Azerbaijani municipal elections point at irregularities

December 23, 2019

This was the first time in Azerbaijan that municipal elections received wide spread coverage and public interest

Azerbaijan: feminists, former political prisoners announce candidacies in formerly ignored municipal elections

December 03, 2019

Previously, municipal elections were largely ignored