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Elmar Piriyev An activist from Azerbaijan's main opposition party has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative detention following his arrest in the western district of Tovuz, party officials say. Elmar Piriyev, a member of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (AXCP), was detained after being summoned to the Tovuz district police station on 27 July. Relatives had reported losing contact with Piriyev shortly after he arrived at the station. AXCP officials said Piriyev had previously been...

Yurush Mehralibeyli An Iranian court has handed jailed Azerbaijani activist Yurush Mehralibeyli a further three-year prison sentence on charges including spreading propaganda against the regime. The Revolutionary Court in Tabriz sentenced Mehralibeyli to three years and one day for "inciting people to war and slaughter" and a further seven months and 16 days for anti-regime propaganda, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported. Mehralibeyli, who is being held in Tabriz prison,...

Mansur Valishov An imprisoned Azerbaijani theologian has entered his fifth day without food or water in protest at being placed in solitary confinement, his family says. Mansur Valishov, who was sentenced to six years in prison on drug charges in 2023, is being held at the Lankaran Penitentiary Complex in southern Azerbaijan. In a recorded phone call with relatives on 30 July, Valishov said he was placed in a punishment cell after demanding medical assistance for another inmate who had been...