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Next to the cell of the leader of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, Ali Kerimli, there is a phone that rings every 15 minutes at night. The Kerimli rights protection committee believes this is part of a deliberate deterioration of his detention conditions.

Alikram Geydarov has become at least the fourth TikToker arrested in Azerbaijan for unethical behavior.

An employee of a private company involved in humanitarian demining operations, Akhad Akhadov, was blown up by an anti-personnel mine, suffering multiple shrapnel wounds.

Armenian organizations achieved the cancellation of the tour by Marriott Bonvoy in Shusha and Stepanakert.

The court in Baku has sentenced TikToker Sanur Azizov to eight days in jail for unethical behavior on the internet. A day earlier, blogger Myuzhgyan Mamedzade was arrested for a similar offense for ten days.

Veronika Zonabend, the wife of the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan, has once again appealed to international organizations and the authorities of Armenia, urging them to facilitate a visit to Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan. Her previous appeal to the Prime Minister of Armenia and the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan went unanswered.

The Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced the activist of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party and public bodyguard of opposition leader Ali Kerimli, Kenan Zeynalov, to nine years in prison in a case of inflicting injury. The defense stated that there was a lack of credible evidence and expressed its intention to appeal the verdict. The APFP calls the criminal prosecution of the activist fabricated and politically motivated.

The editorial office of the exiled Azerbaijani publication Toplum TV expressed disagreement with the guilty verdict handed down to the publication's journalists and activists of the Institute of Democratic Initiatives, calling the criminal prosecution politically motivated. International organizations for the protection of press freedom condemned the court's decision and urged the Azerbaijani authorities to release the journalists.

The international human rights organization Freedom Now condemned the use of physical force against Dilruba Amanova, the mother of the accused in the case of Meydan TV journalist Aytaj Tapdyg, and called on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop pressuring the relatives of political prisoners.

Human rights lawyer Nazim Musaev stated about the violation of attorney-client privilege and pressure from the staff of the correctional institution in Azerbaijan after meeting with his client Elmira Sadigov, a relative of opposition blogger Tural Sadigly.

The court in Baku sentenced the father of a teenager who shot a high school teacher with a hunting rifle in February last year to two years of corrective labor for violations in the storage of weapons.