Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformCrude Accountability @crude-ngo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today we celebrate that Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu was able to leave Azerbaijan for Germany to receive much needed medical treatment. We celebrate his being reunited with his family and honor his amazing children for their indomitable spirit and successful efforts to bring him out of the country. 011
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformFreedom Now @freedomnoworg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We welcome the release of Gubad Ibadoghlu from house arrest after more than 3 yrs of wrongful detention! We call on #Azerbaijan to drop the charges against him and to release all political prisoners www.freedom-now.org/azerbaijan-d... 001
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformSenator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 18/04/2026Economist and anti-corruption advocate Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, who has ties to Virginia, has been unjustly detained in Azerbaijan for 1,000 days. No one should be imprisoned for speaking out against corruption. Azerbaijan must uphold human rights and due process. 88719
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#Azerbaijan exacts a ransom for detained French nationals 🇦🇿 France pressured the EU to lift sanctions on Alisher Usmanov, an oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin. The exemption was part of a secret deal with Azerbaijan to free detained French citizens. 110
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Formula 1 raced through Baku yesterday, lending its broadcast to a government that holds 328 political prisoners. The perpetrators rule, the enablers pay, the accommodators watch the race. #F1 #AzerbaijanGP 🏁 1147
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is why the absence of the rule of law and judicial independence, coupled with the systematic application of arbitrary detention in Azerbaijan, should constitute a fundamental concern for Europe in its entirety ⤵️ 001
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformRights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026President Aliyev calls @europarl ‘a nest of corruption’ and a body of Islamophobes. He uses the vocabulary of accountability, turns it around, pointing it at the institution that used that vocabulary against him ⬛️ Worth a thread 🧵⤵️ @operativmedia.bsky.socialx.comİlham Əliyev (@azpresident) on XAvropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır. 113
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today, a court sentenced Anar Mammadli to 13 years 🇦🇿⚡️ His crime: building Azerbaijan's only independent election watchdog. The Council of Europe gave him its human rights prize in 2014, whilst he served his first sentence for the same work. Since @coe.int leadership is silent. Release him ✌️ 011
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The political prisoners in Azerbaijan embody Europe's stated values and the principles the Council of Europe has been built on 🇪🇺 To them, silence is deafening. If they stop believing in these institutions, European human rights bodies lose their best advocates and relevance. 100
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026For a decade, Azerbaijan has jailed its critics whilst Europe stayed silent ⚠️ We document what that silence costs and the pathway Europe must take to stop it. ➡️ The roadmap exists; what remains is the will to follow it: www.endrepression-az.org/victims-of-a... 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026On 26 May 2026, Afgan Sadigov was denied exit from Baku airport: another travel ban, another silence from the authorities on why they restrict his freedom ⚠️🇦🇿 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Political prisoner Ilgar Aliyev was found dead in Correctional Facility No. 13 on 1 May 2026 ⚠️ His death follows Elbayi Karimli's death in prison in December 2025. Prison deaths require independent investigation. 031
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Seven years after Mammadli v Azerbaijan, the @echr.coe.int's judgment remains unimplemented 🇪🇺🇦🇿 The same indictment template now silences a new generation of journalists and human rights defenders and Anar Mammadli is in prison again. We ask @coe.int for an ad hoc mechanism. 120
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A human rights defender arrested in the “NGO case” tells the court: “If I were a criminal, I would not have used a state bank account directly monitored by the authorities.” Asef Ahmadov's powerful courtroom statement dismantles prosecutors' charges with facts. He seeks justice ⚖️ 120
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Time for a “grand deal” 🇺🇸🇦🇿 @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social's Andrew Danieri argues such a deal, built on the model used in talks with Belarus, could provide for the release of a number of political prisoners vs the lifting of US arms sale restrictions. www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/n...atlanticcouncil.orgNow is the time for a US ‘grand deal’ with AzerbaijanThe White House should work with Congress to propose ending a ban on arms sales to Baku in exchange for the release of unjustly detained individuals. 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The European Parliament called for the freedom for Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov — they are still in detention ⚠️ What does the EU do? It intensifies a partnership without conditions. ➡️ Our briefing note to @droi.europarl.europa.eu www.endrepression-az.org/partnership-... 040
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The partnership without condition continues 🇪🇺🛢️🇦🇿 We researched EU-Azerbaijan relations and specifically how under EU High Representative @kajakallas.bsky.social‘s leadership the EU’s realignment took place. www.endrepression-az.org/partnership-... @mounirsatouri.bsky.socialendrepression-az.orgPartnership Without Conditions: Our Briefing Note for the European Parliament | Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan 030
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The EU-Azerbaijan March 2026 joint statement contains no mention of political prisoners, civil society, media freedom, or the @droi.europarl.europa.eu own December 2025 resolution ⚠️ ➡️ Our briefing note maps the gap between what the EU says and what it does: www.endrepression-az.org/partnership-... 033
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026CRISIS UPDATE: Ramil Babayev appeared at today's Toplum TV case hearing in Baku on a five-day dry hunger strike 🚨 He told the judge he vomited blood twice and was denied medical care until the night before the hearing. He was brought to court by force. 130
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformFlorian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 03/05/2026This is the substance: the Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan detailed analysis of the EU-Azerbaijan relationship shows how energy commitments have been decoupled from human rights obligations. 🔗 Read it www.endrepression-az.org/report-eu-az... 001
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Authorities confiscated Akif Gurbanov’s written materials, pressured fellow detainees to testify against him, cut off his phone access because he refused orders to stop writing political criticism from inside the Baku Pretrial Detention Centre, according to IIIrd Republic Platform. 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026General Rapporteur for political prisoners of @pace.coe.int, Azadeh Rojhan calls for the immediate release of Anar Mammadli. Write to President Aliyev to demand Anar Mammadli's release (scan QR code in the image). 🔗 pace.coe.int/en/news/1028... 110
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformMichel Forst @michelforst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026🔔 Weekly updates on complaints 🇦🇿Complaint ACSR/C/2024/45 (Azerbaijan) (ongoing) Concerns the alleged penalization of Anar Mammadli, advocate for human rights and environmental justice in Azerbaijan. 🔎 Details shorturl.at/z0Aoe 📌 Follow this series on my social media 📩 For updates eepurl.com/jtOQ-Y 112
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Activists demanded the release of Anar Mammadli www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/74816eng.kavkaz-uzel.euActivists demanded the release of Anar MammadliAzerbaijani human rights activist Anar Mammadli has been in custody for nearly two years on fabricated charges, activists said. They called for all charges against him to be dropped and for his releas... 010
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Two years ago today, Azerbaijan grabbed Anar Mammadli off the streets of Baku as he went to pick up his child at nursery. He’s still in prison on fabricated charges ⚠️ ➡️ Sign the petition for his release secure.avaaz.org/community_pe... 033
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Anar Məmmədli iki ildir uydurma ittihamlar əsasında həbsdədir. Prezident Əliyevə birbaşa məktub göndərin və onun dərhal azad edilməsini tələb edin ⚖️ 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Активисты потребовали освободить Анара Мамедли Источник www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/422...kavkaz-uzel.euАктивисты потребовали освободить Анара МамедлиАзербайджанский правозащитник Анар Мамедли почти два года находится под стражей по сфабрикованному делу, заявили активисты. Они призвали снять с арестованного все обвинения и освободить его. 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Join all of those calling for the release of Anar Mammadli ⚖️ Join us calling for the end of the persecution of human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, civic activists and scholars ✊ ➡️ Sign our petition secure.avaaz.org/community_pe... @avaaz.org 073
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformEuropean Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) @epde.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Our colleague and EPDE co-founder, Anar Mammadli, is held as political prisoner in Azerbaijan for almost two years. We stand in solidarity with Anar as a new hearing is being held in Baku. 001
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Free Anar Mammadli 🇦🇿 Two Years of Arbitrary Detention Must End ⚖️ In today's press release, we call on @presidentaz to order the release of Anar Mammadli and to put an end to the persecution of human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, civic activists and scholars. 110
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Today in Baku ⚠️ A new hearing is being held in Anar Mammadli’s case; almost two years on from his abduction, the trial drags on as a political instrument 🔗 free-anar.site 052
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Georgia arrested a journalist on a fake charge at midnight, deported him to Azerbaijan, ignored a binding European Court order to protect him. Eight organisations are demanding the Council of Europe acts. It's silence is threatening its credibility. 🔗 free-anar.site/human-rights... 022
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Today in Baku: another hearing in the politically motivated case against Bashir Suleymanli. Election monitoring expert and human rights defender, he was arrested in March 2025. He was jailed before, in 2014. Same reason: his work. 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The Azerbaijani government prepping citizens to accept a dynasty🤴🇦🇿👸 It used to be all about President Ilham Aliyev. Pro-government media now report more and more about the Family’s religious, charitable, symbolic activities, via @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2026/04/11/e...globalvoices.orgExtending authoritarianism through dynasty in AzerbaijanThe Azerbaijani media is softening the regime’s harsh authoritarian practices by contrasting them with images of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s family conducting familial, religious and charitab... 022
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026🇬🇪 Last night: Georgia expels Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov to face persecution in Baku. 🇦🇿 Today: President Aliyev lands in Tbilisi. Some coincidences are hard to overlook. Our CRISIS UPDATE: free-anar.site/afgan-sadigo...free-anar.siteAfgan Sadigov: Georgia Must Account for his Forced Return to Azerbaijan | Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan 010
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026🚨 CRISIS UPDATE Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov was arrested in Tbilisi, forcibly expelled, and has arrived in Baku today. It all took place despite binding @echr.coe.int interim measures. This is transnational repression. Georgia must account for it. 🔗 free-anar.site/afgan-sadigo... 001
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Azerbaijan ramps up pressure against ‘political prisoners’, via @ocmedia.bsky.social oc-media.org/azerbaijan-r...oc-media.orgAzerbaijan ramps up pressure against ‘political prisoners’One human rights activist has speculated the increased pressure is a sign that some prisoners might be released in the near future. 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Trump's Middle East Envoy, Stephan Wittkoff, claimed Aliyev has "completely transformed" Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 ➡️ Today, Azerbaijan holds the highest number of political prisoners since Aliyev took power in 2003. That's transformative repression. 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026⚠️ Former Azerbaijani MP Nazim Baydemirli has been hospitalised in detention after a sudden health deterioration. He has been imprisoned since July 2023 for taking part in community protests in Soyudlu. Sentenced to 8 years. 🔗 free-anar.site/political-pr... 021
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026🕊️ 10 years ago today, Intigam Aliyev was released from prison: Azerbaijan’s leading human rights lawyer, teacher of a generation, jailed for doing his job. His release came in a decade of repression that has never stopped. 001
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026We wholeheartedly welcome the pardon of 250 political prisoners in Belarus as a result of negotiations led by the USA, including our friends and colleagues from @freeviasna.org 🤍❤️🤍 010
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Abroad, like at home… www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...washingtonpost.comD.C. protesters say they were attacked by guards of Azerbaijani presidentAzerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev is in town for a meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace. Police said an incident that “involved Azerbaijan security guards” had been referred to the State Department. 010
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026⚖️ Human Rights At Stake ⚖️ Mapped by 120+ human rights defenders and experts as the global realignment hardens into a fractured order, and civic space, equality, and accountability come under pressure ➡️10 Global Human Rights Trends humanrightscompass.org#kpg_17808 01711
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Ali Karimli has now been in detention for 75 days. A court has prolonged his pre-trial detention. ➡️ Use and share our portrait image to show solidarity with him and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan: free-anar.site/political-pr... ✊🇦🇿 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Unlawfully detained, woman journalist Aysel Umudova faces sexual violence. she has reported being subjected to sexual harassment, degrading conditions of detention, intimidation and coercion. We call for her immediate and unconditional release. 🔗 free-anar.site/unlawfully-d... 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Today in Baku, another hearing took place in the trial of human rights defender Anar Mammadli. All the theatre of justice is there, except justice itself. Anar Mammadli should be released immediately and unconditionally. #FreeAnar 010
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Unlawfully detained, woman journalist Ulviyya Ali Guliyeva faces sexual violence. We call for her immediate and unconditional release. 🔗 free-anar.site/unlawfully-d... 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Continued deterioration of Azerbaijan’s poor human rights record, documented by @hrw.org in its annual report 🇦🇿 The government intensified its crackdown on media, political opponents, civil society, silencing dissent, further entrenching a climate of fear. www.hrw.org/world-report...hrw.orgWorld Report 2026: Rights Trends in Azerbaijan 000
Azerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026We joined NGOs to denounce sexual harassment, rape threats, ill-treatment against jailed Azerbaijani women journalists Aysel Umudova and Ulviyya Guliyeva ⚠️ We call for their release; ind't investigations and accountability; access to adequate medical care 🇦🇿⚖️ 🔗 free-anar.site/unlawfully-d... 000
Reposted by Azerbaijan Accountability PlatformNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026After joining Board of Peace, with reports of a $1bn buy-in, Azerbaijan is already diverging from Donald Trump on Iran protests 🇦🇿🇺🇸 Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️ 011