Azer Huseyn

(AXCP)Azərbaycan Xalq Cəbhəsi Partiyası.

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@democrats_eu @AliKarimli @presidentaz Stop repression, stop torture, free Ali Karimli

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@democrats_eu @AliKarimli @presidentaz #FREE ALİ KARİMLİ

[European Democrats @democrats_eu]

🇦🇿 The news from Azerbaijan should concern everyone who believes in democracy: Ali #Karimli, leader of the opposition #Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), recently collapsed from dehydration in court amid deeply troubling detention conditions.
We call on President #Aliyev and the Azerbaijani authorities to end this abusive treatment and fully safeguard his health and dignity.
Since November 2025, more than 20 APFP members have reportedly faced detention, pre-trial detention or travel bans, while the party has repeatedly been denied permission to rally in central Baku.
We will not stay silent in the face of this unacceptable repression #AliKarimli

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@TheRWCHR @AliKarimli Stop repression, stop torture, free Ali Karimli...!

[Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights @TheRWCHR]

We are deeply concerned by the worsening detention conditions of @AliKarimli, leader of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), who collapsed from severe dehydration yesterday during a court hearing on his application for house arrest.

We call on the #Azerbaijani authorities to immediately end this abusive treatment, restore access to safe drinking water, electricity, adequate ventilation, ensure a peaceful environment free from disruptive noise and other practices causing sleep deprivation, and all other necessities required to safeguard his health and dignity.

https://t.co/CZ91f7ivuQ

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@AliKarimli @charter_97 #Stop repression, stop torture, free Ali Karimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Belarusian independent outlet @charter_97 has drawn attention to the worsening treatment of Azerbaijani opposition leader Ali Karimli in detention.

Charter97 knows the cost of political repression firsthand. One of Belarus’s leading independent media voices, it has itself faced censorship and persecution under the Lukashenko regime and has been forced to operate from exile.

Its report details Karimli’s alarming condition in court, his repeated pleas for water in extreme heat and his family’s account that he lost consciousness while being transported to the hearing after being denied drinking water.

Solidarity across borders matters. Those who have experienced authoritarian repression recognise it elsewhere, and their voices help ensure that political prisoners are not forgotten.

Ali Karimli must be released:
https://t.co/pcNnfTIk4j

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@AliKarimli #free ALİ KERİMLİ

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Human Rights Watch has raised the alarm over the escalating abuse of imprisoned Azerbaijani opposition leader Ali Karimli.

Following his June interview with France 24, the authorities reportedly:
• Cut his phone calls with family
• Subjected him to prolonged sleep deprivation
• Banned family food parcels
• Removed access to TV, newspapers and written materials

Human Rights Watch warns that these measures may amount to inhuman or degrading treatment under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Detained since November 2025 on politically motivated charges he rejects, Ali Karimli has now spent more than eight months in pretrial detention.

Human Rights Watch calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to end the abusive treatment, release Ali Karimli, and drop the unfounded charges. It also urges Azerbaijan’s international partners to raise his case publicly and in bilateral meetings.

Read the full statement:
https://t.co/paNOUM4HZZ

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@fr #free ALİ KERİMLİ

[FrankfurterRundschau @fr]

„Nawalny wurde unter Putin durch vergleichbare Methoden zugrunde gerichtet“: Alarm in Aserbaidschan https://t.co/nROotS3iSM

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

@Fr has published an investigation warning that imprisoned Azerbaijani opposition leader Ali Karimli could face “a fate similar to Alexei Navalny’s.”

The report cites Human Rights Watch, which says Azerbaijan’s crackdown is intensifying, and details the worsening conditions of Karimli’s detention—including prolonged sleep deprivation, the withholding of legal correspondence and family parcels, and increasingly inhumane treatment.

Human Rights Watch also warns that Azerbaijan’s strategic importance to Europe has too often resulted in muted responses to repression.

The international community must not wait until it is too late.

Read the full investigation below: https://t.co/bLqZ82vutV

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@AliKarimli @fr #free ALİ KARİMLİ

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@AliKarimli #free ALİ KAaRİMLİ

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@ChrisVanHollen #free Ali Kerimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

As Ilham Aliyev was received in Berlin with military honours, Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau published a sharply critical analysis of Chancellor Merz’s handling of the visit.

The newspaper noted that @_FriedrichMerz announced deeper energy, trade and security cooperation with Azerbaijan, yet said “not a word” publicly about the government’s severe repression of the opposition and independent media. It also found no indication from the press conference that Germany had used its economic leverage to raise human rights concerns.

The article highlighted Ali Karimli’s imprisonment on purported coup charges and recalled his call for Germany and Europe—not to sever relations with Azerbaijan, but to use those relations in defence of civil liberties.

It quoted his daughter, Sezan Karimli, arguing that Europe is effectively irreplaceable as a market for Azerbaijani oil and that the West should raise the cost of political repression for Ilham Aliyev.

Reporters Without Borders separately told the newspaper that Germany and the EU were prioritising energy security over condemning human rights abuses, and that the German government had missed the opportunity to tie economic agreements to respect for fundamental rights.

Europe has leverage. It should use it to press for the release of Ali Karimli and all political prisoners.

Read the full @fr article: https://t.co/Bzo0AIPpIM

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@AliKarimli @Newsweek #free ALİ KARİMLİ

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

@Newsweek has published an interview with Ali Karimli on the fabricated case against him, his worsening conditions in detention and his message to the West.

He describes being placed with a convicted terrorist and ISIS member, previously treated in a psychiatric unit, who performs loud rituals from 3am and deprives him of sleep; being denied contact and visits with his family; and having his handwritten legal notes and court motions confiscated.

“They treat me as a hostage rather than a prisoner.”

As the US and Europe deepen energy and trade ties with Baku, his message is clear: human rights must be discussed on equal footing with energy and security—not allowed to trail behind them.

Ali Karimli also commented on how the Aliyev regime keeps playing all sides instead of firmly moving Azerbaijan into the U.S. and Euro-Atlantic alliance and away from Russian influence

“We want Azerbaijan, too, to pursue a clearly Western-oriented policy and to integrate with the West, but the one-man rule currently in place in Azerbaijan is playing between Russia and the West, as it always has.”

Read the full Newsweek article: https://t.co/qXkZab7wBB

[Azer Huseyn @JOKER529332]

@AliKarimli Əli Kərimliyə və digər siyasi məhbuslara azadlıq tələb edirəm..!

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Eight months into Ali Karimli’s detention by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service on fabricated charges, the pressure against him is mounting.

According to his Defence Committee, new restrictions were imposed this week:

• Food parcels from his family restricted
• Television access cut off again
• Handwritten court motions confiscated
• Lawyers barred from bringing written notes into meetings

Karimli also remains in a cell with a prisoner accused of terrorism and reportedly suffering from serious mental health problems, who the Committee says was deliberately placed there and repeatedly prevents him from sleeping at night.

His family contact, access to outdoor exercise and ability to follow daily news also remain restricted. The Committee says this sustained physical and psychological pressure amounts, in practice, to torture.

He remains in a cell with a terrorism-accused inmate with mental health problems, deliberately placed there, who prevents him from sleeping.

The pattern is unmistakable: the abuse began after his France 24 interview and has intensified each time he speaks to international media. It continues despite growing international scrutiny of his detention conditions, including from PACE.

This is not merely a party-political issue. It is a matter of human dignity, due process and the rule of law. We call on Azerbaijan’s political and civil society forces, international media, PACE and human rights organisations to demand the immediate restoration of Ali Karimli’s rights and the release of all political prisoners.

#FreeAliKarimli