{"id":173190,"date":"2016-01-28T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/hrw-unprecedented-crackdown-in-azerbaijan\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:52:51","slug":"hrw-unprecedented-crackdown-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/hrw-unprecedented-crackdown-in-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW: Unprecedented crackdown in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/46588\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46588\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/46591\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46591\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  2015 was marked by an unprecedented crackdown on human rights in Azerbaijan, rights watchdog<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/01\/27\/azerbaijan-unprecedented-government-crackdown\"><br \/>\n    Human Rights Watch<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  stated in its annual<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2016\"><br \/>\n      World Report 2016<br \/>\n    <\/a><br \/>\n    ,<br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    published yesterday.<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Azerbaijani government\u2019s unrelenting crackdown is decimating the country\u2019s once vibrant community of independent nongovernmental organizations and media, according to the document.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe government\u2019s crackdown in Azerbaijan is unprecedented in the country\u2019s post-Soviet history,\u201d said<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/giorgi-gogia\"><br \/>\n    Giorgi Gogia<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  , South Caucasus director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cAlthough the government is opening the country for international sporting and other events, it\u2019s closing the country to human rights scrutiny.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Courts have sentenced leading human rights defenders and other government critics to long prison terms in politically motivated, unfair trials. Dozens more face harassment and prosecution, and the authorities have denied entry to international human rights monitors and journalists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the HRW report, the crackdown continued as Baku hosted the inaugural<br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/en\/article\/the-silence-of-sport\/\"><br \/>\n    European Games<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  . The government barred international monitors and journalists from entering the country during 2015 and forced the closure of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE)\u2019s Baku office. For the first time ever, the OSCE refused to send an observation mission to monitor the Azerbaijani legislative vote, which took place on November 1, citing the restrictions on the mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A number of activists were handed long-term prison sentences, ranging from six to eight-and-a-half years, including human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and the human rights campaigner Rasul Jafarov. Others imprisoned on politically motivated charges include the<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Azadlig<br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  columnist Seymur Haziyev, and opposition party activists Siraj and Faraj Kerimlis, and Murad Adilov.\u00a0 Taleh Khasmammadov, a human rights activist, was sentenced to three years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijan\u2019s international partners, however, struggled to find a unified response to the crackdown. Several Council of Europe institutions condemned rights violations, but have yet to impose any consequences, according to HRW. The European Union continues to negotiate a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan without preconditioning the talks on fundamental improvements in human rights or the release of jailed human rights defenders and journalists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe absence of serious international response to Azerbaijan\u2019s draconian crackdown undermines European human rights standards,\u201d Gogia said. \u201cInternational entities, in particular the European Union and its members, should develop a consistent strategy to get the Azerbaijani government to carry out its human rights obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 was marked by an unprecedented crackdown on human rights in Azerbaijan, rights watchdog Human Rights Watch stated in its annual World Report 2016, published yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":46588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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