Azerbaijani Election Monitor Sentenced after Unfair Trial

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Click to expand Image Anar Mammadli, human rights defender and election monitor, Baku, Azerbaijan, February 6, 2024. © 2024 Hannah Wagner/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo A court in Azerbaijan on September 7 sentenced the prominent human rights defender and election monitor Anar Mammadli to 13 years in prison following a trial marred by serious due process violations.

His co-defendant, civic activist Anar Abdullayev, received a 12-year sentence.Mammadli, 48, spent more than two years in pretrial detention before the Baku Grave Crimes Court convicted him on…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · September 10, 2026

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