My principled friends, PFPA activists, and my voluntary bodyguards, Kenan Basqal and Novruz Tagiyev, have had their detention extended for another three months. Neither Kenan nor Novruz has committed a crime—or even the most minor legal infraction.

They first took independent politician Azer Gasimli’s money — now they’ve taken his freedom.
Today, together with National Council chairman Jamil Hasanli and our colleagues from the Popular Front, we attended the trial of political prisoner Azer Gasimli.

I remain in Baku despite arrests, beatings & surveillance because the fight for Azerbaijan’s democracy must be waged from within.
This is my life’s mission. I’m ready to pay any price to dismantle dictatorship and restore democracy.

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A break with Russia is also not in the interests of Ilham Aliyev himself. First, there is the factor of millions of Azerbaijanis living in Russia. Secondly, the current contradictions, there is ideological affinity between Aliyev and Putin.

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In a striking gesture of political maturity, the Merz government is prepared to assign eight additional advisers to the former Chancellor, each with a monthly salary of €10,000–15,000, so that he can continue contributing to national policy as a trusted adviser to the new government.

A verdict was delivered in the fabricated criminal case against the Abzas Media journalist collective. The journalists have already been imprisoned for 19 months.

Russian officials have resumed their threats against Azerbaijan.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned Baku about the “risks” of cooperating with NATO. Just 2 day ago, President Putin’s aide, Vladimir Medinsky, referred to Karabakh as a “disputed territory.”

In a country where over 10000 students are expelled from university each year because they can't afford tuition, a lavish new headquarters has been built for the State Customs Committee, an institution that already occupied a perfectly adequate building. Aliyev himself attended the opening ceremony.

A criminal case has been opened against Novruz Taghiyev, the bodyguard of the chairman of the PFPA @alikarimli.bsky.social and party activist, on false charges, and he has been placed in pre-trial detention.
According to the party, N. Taghiyev has been charged with fraud.

Ilham Aliyev is directly targeting individuals close to me through his security apparatus. Another one of my bodyguards and PFPA activist Novruz Taghiyev, and Rashad Aliyev, a fellow party activist who used his own car to take me to various events, have also been detained.

We demand freedom for our young female journalists who have been imprisoned as political prisoners! They are not criminals, but professional journalists. Their only “crime” is exposing corruption and repression, and bringing the people's problems to public attention.

On the 39th day of his hunger strike, Tofig Yagublu's condition became critical. His daughter Nigar called for help to save her father.

Today, a preparatory hearing was held at the Baku Court of Appeals regarding Tofiq Yaqublu's appeal. The court not only did not change the pretrial detention measure for Tofiq Yaqublu, but also set the next hearing for the latest possible date allowed by law.

The Court of Appeal did not release Tofig Yagublu under house arrest and set the next hearing for May 20.
This decision effectively means sentencing Tofig Yagublu to death.

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Məhkəməni 20 maya təyin etmək Tofiq Yaqublunu faktiki ölümə məhkum etməkdir.