Azerbaijan

March 18, 2026 23:51

• Yagublu's relatives claimed his rights were violated during his hunger strike.

  Opposition figure Tofig Yagublu, who has been on a hunger strike in a pretrial detention center for 24 days, is not receiving effective medical care and his rights are being violated, his daughter Nigar Hazi stated.

March 18, 2026 13:59

• The detention period of Azerbaijani lawyer Gahramanov has been extended.

  A Baku court extended the pretrial detention of lawyer Zabil Gahramanov by two months. The defense disagrees with this decision and intends to appeal.

March 18, 2026 04:25

• A post about protecting Karabakh's Armenian heritage sparked a thousand-comment discussion.

  Over a thousand comments were left by Facebook* users under a "Caucasian Knot" post about historians' calls to preserve Karabakh's Armenian heritage. The discussion escalated into mutual accusations of vandalism at various points in the region's history and the need for appeals to the international community.

March 17, 2026 10:12

• Witness testimony strengthened the case of human rights activist Safarov's innocence.

  Prosecution witnesses in the case of human rights activist Rufat Safarov did not confirm the investigation's version of events in court. The defendant himself insists that the case was fabricated at the behest of the Azerbaijani authorities.

March 17, 2026 09:13

• 82 Azerbaijani families have returned to the former Karabakh conflict zone.

  Today, 368 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to seven villages in the Aghdere, Khojavend, and Jabrayil districts.

March 17, 2026 05:50

• A train carrying diesel fuel was sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

  A batch of diesel fuel totaling approximately 4,500 tons was sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

March 17, 2026 00:55

• A Baku court announced the verdict in the case of Ryan and Mammadli.

  French citizen Martin Ryan was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of espionage, and Azerbaijani Azad Mammadli received 12 years in prison on charges of treason.

March 16, 2026 16:54

• Vardanyan requested a meeting with the Azerbaijani ombudsman

  In a conversation with his family, former Nagorno-Karabakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan attempted to convey a request to the Azerbaijani ombudsman for a meeting. According to him, a month after the trials ended, neither he nor the other convicted Nagorno-Karabakh leaders had received copies of the verdicts, and it was impossible to contact the ombudsman. The Azerbaijani side ended the call.

March 16, 2026 03:57

• 31 people were evacuated from Iran to Azerbaijan in one day.

  Over the past 24 hours, 31 people crossed the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, including 13 Russian citizens and six Azerbaijani citizens.

March 15, 2026 13:02

• Historians call for an end to the destruction of Armenian monuments in Karabakh

  Armenian historians have called for international intervention to prevent Azerbaijan from destroying cultural heritage sites in Karabakh. Authors of a report to the British Parliament also reported instances of vandalism in the former Karabakh conflict zone.

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