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Two Years Too Many: Free Anar Mammadli and End Repression in Azerbaijan
Florian I.
started this petition to
President Ilham Aliyev; Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev
Two years on from his abduction in Baku, Anar Mammadli is still in prison on fabricated charges. We petition President Aliyev for his release.
On 29 April 2024, Azerbaijani security forces grabbed Anar Mammadli off the streets of Baku. He was on his way to pick up his child from nursery. Two years later, he is still in prison on fabricated charges.
And this is not the first time he is jailed: in 2013 he was arrested and ultimately convicted on the same charges as now. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that his earlier detention was politically motivated.
Anar Mammadli is a prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender. He leads Azerbaijan’s only independent election watchdog and co-founded the Climate of Justice Initiative.
United Nations human rights experts, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the World Organisation Against Torture, Human Rights House Foundation, Front Line Defenders, have all called the case against him political.
What is happening to Anar Mammadli is happening to hundreds of others. The same methods are used across Azerbaijan against human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, civic activists and scholars: fabricated charges, long detention before trial, unfair trials, smear campaigns, and time in solitary cells.
The Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan initiated this petition, as Anar Mammadli's case is emblematic of a long decade of repression in Azerbaijan.
On 29 April 2024, Azerbaijani security forces grabbed Anar Mammadli off the streets of Baku. He was on his way to pick up his child from nursery. Two years later, he is still in prison on fabricated charges.
And this is not the first time he is jailed: in 2013 he was arrested and ultimately convicted on the same charges as now. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that his earlier detention was politically motivated.
Anar Mammadli is a prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender. He leads Azerbaijan’s only independent election watchdog and co-founded the Climate of Justice Initiative.
United Nations human rights experts, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the World Organisation Against Torture, Human Rights House Foundation, Front Line Defenders, have all called the case against him political.
What is happening to Anar Mammadli is happening to hundreds of others. The same methods are used across Azerbaijan against human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, civic activists and scholars: fabricated charges, long detention before trial, unfair trials, smear campaigns, and time in solitary cells.
The Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan initiated this petition, as Anar Mammadli's case is emblematic of a long decade of repression in Azerbaijan.
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