Category: Legal

On July 23, the Binagadi District Court extended the pretrial detention of Afgan Sadigov, the head of the YouTube channel Azel TV, by three months. The information was confirmed to Qazetci by Sadigov’s lawyer, Nemat Karimli. “The court ruled to extend the pretrial detention until October 30. During the hearing, the investigator stated that new complaints against journalist […]

Mariana Vasileva, who was removed from her post as deputy minister of youth and sports last year, has been appointed to a new position. According to Gununsesi.info, Vasileva has been named executive director of the Azerbaijan Athletics Federation by the federation’s president, Javid Gurbanov. Before being appointed deputy minister in 2021, Vasileva served as head […]

The authorities in Azerbaijan appear to have blocked OC Media’s website, with the site remaining inaccessible throughout the country. OC Media first learnt from readers that they could not reach the website in early June, just as Azerbaijan launched a new National Cybersecurity Agency (NCA) with far-reaching powers of information control. All attempts to load the website across […]

The lawyer retained by his family is not being allowed to meet with Ruben Vardanyan. According to information obtained by Qəzetçi, the new lawyer visited the Umbaki Penitentiary Center where Vardanyan is being held on several occasions, but has not been given the conditions necessary to meet with his client. According to the source, Ruben […]

Five years after the assassination attempt against Məhəmməd Mirzəli, an Azerbaijani blogger who received political asylum in France, a criminal trial opened on May 26 at the Rennes Criminal Court. Məhəmməd Mirzəli told Qəzetçi that during the proceedings, one of the defendants made a confession that played a significant role in the opening of the […]

Azerbaijan is one of two countries leading among Council of Europe member states in terms of prisoner numbers heading into 2025.  According to a report published on May 19 by the Council of Europe jointly with the University of Lausanne, Azerbaijan has 271 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants. By this indicator, Azerbaijan trails only its neighbor […]