Photos of alleged torture by police published in Azerbaijan (oc-media.org)
Feb 5, 2024. Posted by Balkan
Periscope - Hellas
In the run-up to February 7 presidential elections, repression has increased in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic in the Caucasus that borders Iran and Armenia.
Any opposition to President Ilham Aliyev is silenced. Human rights activists, journalists and political opponents are on the receiving end of the regime's wrath on a daily basis. Our reporters Karina Chabour and Roméo Langlois met victims of torture who are denouncing a violent system of repression. They also looked into the Council of Europe's ambiguous links to the regime in Baku.
In November 2023,
several journalists and a member of the administrative team from Abzas, an
online investigative media specialising in human rights in Azerbaijan,
were arrested by the country's authorities. A few days later, Forbidden
Stories, an international consortium of investigative journalists, announced
that it was continuing Abzas's work.
As part of
a consortium of French and international media organisations, RFI and FRANCE 24
are continuing the imprisoned journalists' investigations into corruption by
the Azerbaijani authorities. The work is being published by a dozen partner
media outlets.
Forbidden
Stories is an international network of journalists whose mission is to pursue
the investigations of journalists who have been murdered, threatened or
imprisoned. Since its creation in 2017, more than 150 journalists and 60 media
outlets have taken part in the collaborative investigations coordinated by
Forbidden Stories, including "The Rafael Project", "Story
Killers" and "The Pegasus Project".
France24
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