Azerbaijani Authorities Escalate Abuse of Detained Opposition Leader

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Click to expand Image Ali Karimli speaks at a rally in 2016.

© 2016 Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Azerbaijani authorities have imposed increasingly punitive detention conditions on Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), raising serious concerns about inhuman or degrading treatment.Karimli, 61, has been held in the State Security Service detention…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · August 5, 2026

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