Azerbaijan

December 24, 2025 05:38

• Journalist Ganimat Zahid sentenced in Baku

  A Baku court found journalist Ganimat Zahid guilty of inciting violence against the state and sentenced him in absentia to seven years in prison.

December 23, 2025 10:06

• The court refused to acknowledge any violations in the investigation in the Meydan TV case.

  The defendants and defense pointed out violations in the investigative documents and requested that they be excluded from the Meydan TV case file. The court denied the request to declare these documents inadmissible evidence.

December 22, 2025 18:25

• Babayan and Mnatsakanyan denied the charges in a Baku court.

  Former Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Minister David Babayan and former Defense Army Commander Levon Mnatsakanyan delivered their closing statements at a Baku court hearing today. Before them, former Nagorno-Karabakh President Arayik Harutyunyan delivered his closing statement, sparking a debate between Armenian and Azerbaijani Facebook users*.

December 22, 2025 16:39

• Izzetli's worsening condition has alarmed his loved ones.

  Ruslan Izzetli, arrested in Baku, has suffered a deteriorating condition due to gallstones. His wife, who had been recommended surgery even before his arrest, expressed fear for his life.

December 22, 2025 11:58

• The number of Azerbaijani families returning to Hasanriz has reached 255.

  Ten Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to Hasanriz today. The total number of displaced persons who have returned to the village has reached 989.

December 22, 2025 09:59

• A large-scale amnesty has begun in Azerbaijan.

  Today, Azerbaijan began implementing the amnesty law announced to mark the country's Constitution and sovereignty year. The amnesty, which will affect approximately 20,000 people, will take four months.

December 22, 2025 02:57

• Six residents of Kiranets refused compensation for property transferred to Azerbaijan.

  Most residents of the Armenian border village of Kirants, part of whose territory came under Azerbaijani control, have received compensation, but at least six villagers refuse to accept it.

December 20, 2025 16:54

• Afiyaddin Mamedov was awarded the Nargiz Prize

  The winner of the annual Nargiz Prize, which is awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy in Azerbaijan, was Afiyaddin Mammadov, chairman of the alternative Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan "Workers' Platform", who is serving a prison sentence.

December 20, 2025 13:57

• 30 Azerbaijani families returned to Khankendi

  The first group of Azerbaijani displaced persons returned to the village of Karkijahan, the former capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, today.

December 20, 2025 10:58

• Tofig Yagublu presented his defense to the judges.

  Contrary to established practice, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan allowed convicted politician Tofig Yagublu to speak at his cassation appeal hearing. The politician maintained his innocence.

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