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A Baku court has extended pre-trial imprisonment for Shia imam Sardar Babayev until April. The secret police arrested the former prisoner of conscience in October 2021 and is investigating him on criminal charges of treason. Six other arrested Shia preachers were freed and criminal cases dropped. "Its a question of relations between Azerbaijan and Iran," a commentator noted, but insists charges of treason are unfounded. "If someone has sympathy for Iran, does it make them an Irani...

Baku announced -- then partly walked back -- steps to remove what it calls "fictitious traces” of Armenian heritage from churches now under Azerbaijani control in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Archival images show what some of those inscriptions and artworks look like.

01/26/2022 Nagorno-Karabakh (International Christian Concern) – Azerbaijan continues to prevent Armenian pilgrims from visiting the Dadivank Monastery, where Christians seeking to […]

Despite another European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision that Azerbaijan violated the human rights of two more conscientious objectors, Saadat Novruzova of the Presidential Administrations Human Rights Protection Unit told Forum 18 that changing the law to introduce a civilian alternative to compulsory military service "is not under discussion". Azerbaijan committed to the Council of Europe to introduce an alternative service by January 2003. The 7 October ECtHR decision reminde...

>> Anton Troianovski, The New York Times Published: 26 Jul 2021 10:07 AM BdST Updated: 26 Jul 2021 10:07 AM BdST Relatives of fallen soldiers visit the military cemetery in Baku, Azerbaijan, June 26, 2021. The New York Times The old and dilapidated houses in Shusha, Azerbaijan, June 23, 2021. The New York Times Armenian monks, protected by Russian peacekeepers, still serve at Dadivank Monastery in Kelbajar, the only place retaken by Azerbaijan where Armenians are known to have remained, Ju...

July 09, 2021 CWN Editors Note: Azerbaijani military forces have blocked access to an Armenian Apostolic monastery for several weeks. The Dadivank Monastery is located near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, and protected by a Russian peacekeeping force. The monks are reportedly safe, but the faithful are unable to attend services at the monastery. Azerbaijan has declined to explain why roads to the monastery have been blockaded. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details...

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Artsakh ombudsman to inform intl community about Dadivank incident Artsakh Human Rights Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan will inform the international community about the latest incident in Dadivank Monastery. The Azerbaijani forces on Sunday prevented the entry of 25 Armenian pilgrims to Dadivank where the ordination ceremony was foreseen by the servants of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. “Preventing the entrance of the faithful to Dadivank with obviously false and idle pre...

28 April 2021 Felix Corley, Forum 18 Azerbaijans military blocked Armenian pilgrims visiting Dadivank Monastery for Sunday worship on 25 April and the ordination of a priest. The monastery is in territory returned to Azerbaijani control after 2020 fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian peace keepers accompany pilgrims to Dadivank, but "They too were surprised" by the sudden denial of access, says Nagorno-Karabakhs Ombudsperson, Gegham Stepanyan. The ordination had to be moved to another monast...