Azerbaijan’s Post-COP29 Crackdown

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police seize a poster that reads “Journalism is Not a Crime” during a protest by journalists in front of the Azerbaijan parliament building, December 28, 2021, Baku. In November 2023, Azerbaijani authorities arrested Abzas Media director Ulvi Hasanli, pictured on the right, and five of his colleagues on bogus charges. All six remain in pretrial detention. © 2021 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images The curtains had barely closed on the global United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, in Baku when Azerbaijani authorities resumed their crackdown on government critics. On…

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