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Human rights defenders work to promote and protect rights of all – their work should be promoted and they should to enjoy protection in their work. However, throughout the world, they face harsh repression and often work in an unfavourable environment.

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus have to rehabilitate all persons arbitrarily detained and to review and address systemic factors within their legal systems and State apparatus’ which underlie this human rights abuse; States need to stop using arbitrary detention as a repression tool.

International and Azerbaijani NGOs condemn the blackmail and continued harassment of one of the few independent investigative journalists working in Azerbaijan, Khadija Ismayilova.

Azerbaijani and international NGOs condemn the blackmail and continued harassment of one of the independent investigative journalists working in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Khadija Ismayilova. The most recent episode in the harassment campaign involves a one minute film of an intimate nature being posted on the internet on Wednesday 14 March 14.

Human Rights House Foundation made a statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council on the human rights situations in Azerbaijan, Belarus and Russia, on 13 March 2012.

One year has passed since Azerbaijan Human Rights House was asked to seize all activities until an agreement with the authorities was adopted.

The murder of Monitor editor-in-chief Elmar Huseynov, who was fatally gunned down in his apartment building in 2005, is still not solved.

Human Rights House Foundation is concerned about the violations of Internet freedoms in South Caucasus and Eastern Europe.

44 non-governmental organisations, including partners and members of the Human Rights House Network, urge the Human Rights Council to raise concern relating to fundamental freedoms in Azerbaijan.