Azerbaijan: At least 25 journalists and • Table.Briefings

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, seen here at a military parade, wants to turn COP29 into a „COP of peace“. Reports about the arrest of journalists and activists cast doubt on this.

In the run-up to this year’s COP29 World Climate Change Conference in Baku, host Azerbaijan had several journalists and activists arrested last year, as Human Rights Watch has reported. Some of them are still in custody.

According to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, Azerbaijan has arrested at least 25 independent journalists and activists in the past year. Many of them are still in custody. Most recently, six journalists from the online medium Toplum TV were arrested in Baku on March 6. The authorities also raided their office and sealed it off. Consequently, Toplum TV’s Instagram and YouTube channels were also hacked, and posts were deleted, according to Human Rights Watch reports.

Azerbaijan: At least 25 journalists and activists arrested ahead of COP29

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