Amnesty International has verified the use of banned cluster bombs by Armenia for the first time in the current Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, following an attack on the city of Barda in […]

The 17 November 2018 detention of Azerbaijani opposition leaders and activists as they were attempting to organize a peaceful rally in the capital Baku is a violation of the right […]

Azeri human rights activists, journalists and political dissidents have been the targets of a fraudulent and sustained ‘spear phishing’ campaign using emails and Facebook chat, apparently aimed at gaining access […]

A 10-year jail sentence handed by the Baku Court of Grave Crimes in Azerbaijan to Bayram Mammadov, a youth activist who has been detained since May 2016 after spraying graffiti […]

The derisory new climate finance target agreed to at the close of COP29 in Azerbaijan will put the human rights of billions of people at risk and perpetuate global inequalities, […]

Responding to a Global Witness investigation that appears to show the chief executive of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, using his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil […]

Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making and commit to massively scaling up needs-based climate financing […]

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) opens next week in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The summit takes place between November, and decisions made there will impact all […]

The death of president Ebrahim Raisi must not deny people in Iran their right to justice, truth and reparation for the litany of crimes under international law and human rights […]

The Iranian authorities’ executions of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark after egregiously unfair trials mark a harrowing descent into new realms of cruelty, said Amnesty International today. On 23 January […]

Anwar Khezri, Farhad Salimi, Kamran Sheikheh, and Khosrow Basharat, members of Iran’s Kurdish Sunni minority, face a serious threat of execution in Ghezel Hesar prison, Alborz province. This comes amid […]

Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 nationwide protests. On December 16, 2023, Branch 17 of the Supreme Court […]