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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. "It's 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 Iranian agent?" A Baku mosque police closed in October 2021 on alleged coronavirus grounds remains ...

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 Administration's 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 reminded Azerbaijan of a similar earlier decision that "calls in principle for legislative action&quo...

>> 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, June 24, 2021. The New York Times The medieval monastery walls are masked with camouflage netting. Ma...