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[Elturan_Rustamli @elturanrustamli]

Maybe they don't want Kemal because he wasn't elected?)

[Zeki Atıcı @grafizek]

Kılıçdaroğlu'nu niye partinin başında istemiyorsunuz kardeşim? Dürüst olduğu için mi? Alevi olduğu için mi? Çalmadığı için mi? Yolsuzluk yapmadığı için mi? Tabağın etli tarafını çocuğa çevirecek kadar yüce gönüllü olduğu için mi? Devletimiz Kemal beyi uygun görmüş partinin başında, siz neden istemiyorsunuz?

[Elturan_Rustamli @elturanrustamli]

Nachkivan airport hit by İran.

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

The U.S. vice president will cement trade corridor, the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. https://t.co/qmlCN9GtRn

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

They are trying to keep me in detention for a long time on Ilham Aliyev’s orders.

PFPA leader Ali Karimli has conveyed his reaction, through his family, to the extension of the preventive detention measure imposed on him. Karimli stated:

“My detention period has been extended by four months in a completely unfounded manner. There has been no crime at all, and no investigative actions are being carried out. I am being removed from the political arena and political competition solely on Ilham Aliyev’s instructions, because he does not want to see me in the political sphere or confront me. On his orders, they are trying to keep me in detention for as long as possible.
Law plays no role whatsoever in this process. This is a one hundred percent political decision. The extension of my detention without any legal basis, along with the growing number of arrests of Popular Front activists, also reveals another objective of the regime. The aim is to weaken the party’s structures by isolating me and to neutralize the organization that represents the only center of resistance against the transition from authoritarianism to dictatorship. In this regard, both the international community and the people of Azerbaijan should be aware that protecting the Popular Front, which is the main address of resistance against the regime, is now one of the most important tasks.”

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Ali Karimli’s daughter, Sezan Karimli, gave an interview to @faznet.

While the Azerbaijani authorities seek international legitimacy, repression at home is intensifying. Nearly 390 political prisoners, including 25 journalists, remain imprisoned.

Peace and partnership will only endure if built on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

https://t.co/KuRIGQUeVQ

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Ende November zwang der aserbaidschanische Inlandsgeheimdienst eine Nachbarin dazu, bei Ali Karimli zu klingeln. Kaum hatte der 60 Jahre alte Oppositionpolitiker die Tür geöffnet, stürmten maskierte Männer hinein, schrien, durchsuchten die Wohnung.

https://t.co/94ugaPgLd4

[Elturan_Rustamli @elturanrustamli]

@yagosabuncuoglu @Fenerbahce @yagosabuncuoglu, onu da siz söyleyin, ne zaman geliyor?

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Azerbaijan has nearly 340 political prisoners.

They are imprisoned not for violence, but for peaceful public participation — speaking, writing, organising, and expressing views openly.

These are civic acts. Treating them as crimes is a test for the whole country.

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Chronicle of the Persecution of Ali Karimli

Fifth Article

By Jamil Hasanli, Chairman of the National Council

In 2016, yet another accusation of “treason” was brought against Ali Karimli. That year, the New Azerbaijan Party (the ruling party of Azerbaijan) and the special services organized protests in front of his home, during which he was insulted. Unlike in 2011, this time he was no longer accused of being a “radical religious figure,” but rather of “cooperating” with the Armenian special services, being pro-Armenian, and acting against Azerbaijan.

These so-called “protest actions” lasted for about a week and were stopped only after a statement of condemnation from the U.S. Embassy. This condemnation was also published in the press in April 2016. Interestingly, during these protests organized by the ruling party in front of Ali Karimli’s home, protesters demanded that he leave Azerbaijan.

In 2012, the European Games were held in Azerbaijan. In connection with these games, a new scheme was also devised against Ali Karimli. In the context of those events, he was summoned for investigation to the Baku Main Police Department. At that time, there were a large number of political prisoners in the country. In this regard, the Popular Front and other democratic institutions appealed to the European Games Organizing Committee, stating that a country hosting the European Games could not have so many political prisoners. They wanted European states and institutions to demand the release of political prisoners from Azerbaijan, which was hosting the European Games.

During the days of the European Games, a protest was held in the Seaside Boulevard area of Baku to draw the attention of the international media present in the city to the problem of political prisoners. The protest greatly angered the authorities. At 2 a.m., 7–8 individuals in civilian clothes raided Ali Karimli’s home. However, he did not open the door and informed members of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party that his home was being raided. The raiders kicked the door forcefully and threatened to break it down.

Soon, members of the Popular Front gathered in front of the building where Ali Karimli lived. Only after the raiders saw that the activists had assembled and that the attempted raid had already caused serious resonance on social networks did they identify themselves, stating that they were officers of the Baku Main Police Department and that they needed to take Ali Karimli to the department. Ali Karimli replied that he had no intention of opening the door or going to the police department at 2 a.m. However, he stated that if a police officer brought him an official summons from the Main Department in the morning, he would go to the Baku Main Police Department himself.
After that, the operatives left the building, and in the morning an official summons was delivered to Ali Karimli. On the basis of this official summons, he went to the Department. Staff members of the OSCE Baku Office and the then-existing independent media accompanied Ali Karimli to the Main Police Department. At the Department, an investigative group led by the Deputy Prosecutor of Baku City questioned him for a long time. Once again, he was accused of grossly violating public order.

However, detaining him during the days when the European elite were present in Baku caused serious international repercussions. Some members of the European Parliament who had come to Baku for the European Games even visited his home. Information about their visits to Ali Karimli’s home was published in a number of media outlets. Taking all this into account, the authorities once again abandoned, at the last moment, the idea of sending him to long-term imprisonment. But, of course, only temporarily…

(To be continued)

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Arresting an opposition leader on fabricated charges means shutting down political competition in a country. It means putting a lock on free speech. It means closing the doors in the face of democratic institutions. It means shackling human rights and freedoms. It means killing a society’s hope for the future. It is treating the choices of millions as worthless and forcing one person’s ego on everyone else. It means removing the strongest critic to open even more space for arbitrariness and lawlessness. It means seizing what belongs to every citizen and dividing it among a small circle.

Arresting an opposition leader on false accusations also means silencing the voices of the millions who place their hopes in that person. It means leaving them defenseless and without support. Instead of spreading kindness and compassion, it fuels hatred and revenge. It drags the country’s future into darkness. Instead of correcting the wrongs that the opposition leader points out, it covers them up and blindly intensifies the wave of discontent. Instead of listening to dissatisfied citizens, it empowers instruments of force to silence them. It means that those in power stubbornly close their eyes to everything negative happening around them instead of watching events with open eyes.

Arresting an opposition leader on trumped-up charges also means trampling on law and justice. By imprisoning those who tell the truth, it challenges everyone who stands on the side of truth. It means refusing to be accountable to the people under the claim, “I am the law.” It means building a reign of oppression on human lives and sitting atop it. It means confronting the democratic world that values legal principles. Yet history’s lessons are repeated before our eyes every day: no oppression lasts forever and no injustice goes unanswered. In the end, even if everything breaks at its thinnest point, it is people who ultimately break. As the saying goes, “What is built by oppression will, in the end, be ruined.”

Saadat Jahangir
Deputy Leader of the PFPA

[Giorgi Gogia @Giorgi_Gogia]

Azerbaijani authorities have sharply intensified their long-running crackdown on the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, targeting its leadership & party members with politically motivated prosecutions & intimidation. Read more from @hrw https://t.co/mpvHo6W7lK

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee @SFRCdems]

"I am moved by the words of @RFERL's Farid Mehralizada, who has been unjustly detained in Azerbaijan since May 2024, and I continue to call for his release. I look forward to the day when he visits the U.S. Senate as a free man, hopefully with his family." -@SenatorShaheen

[Natiq Adilov @adilov_natiq]

Cəbhəçi bəylərə azadlıq tələb edirik!

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Therefore, preventing the inclusion of the South Caucasus into Russia’s sphere of influence depends directly on the democratization of these states.

https://t.co/OzNwqf8fr8

[Campaign to End Repression Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 @EndRepressionAZ]

Europe’s focus on energy & Middle Corridor has given Baku leverage while rights were pushed aside 🇪🇺🛢️🇦🇿

Allegations of Russian fuel flowing through Azerbaijan raise deeper questions about Europe’s security choices 🇦🇿⚠️🇷🇺

Our report goes live tomorrow
🔜 https://t.co/MJoDwDPuYf

[Elturan_Rustamli @elturanrustamli]

@LegacySiu Eto

[Comerd Qaya @Comerd_Qaya]

The photos that Mr. Afqan raised in the capital of Georgia in support of Ali Karimli and our political prisoners are among the most inspiring events of these difficult days.

Freedom and democracy will come to the South Caucasus as well.
Because it will see that we are the ones who want it the most — and it will come.
We will bring it!

Special thanks to Mr. Afqan.

[Latvijas Radio Ziņas @LRZinas]

Azerbaidžānas varasiestādes ir arestējušas valsts lielākās opozīcijas partijas "Azerbaidžānas Tautas fronte" līderi Ali Kerimli, kuru apsūdz plānos gāzt no amata valsts autoritāro prezidentu Ilhamu Alijevu.
https://t.co/iKgGtBgQ7l

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Congress prepared to act

With the White House hesitating, lawmakers are stepping in. Rep. Chris Smith recently announced his intention to introduce the “Azerbaijan Democracy Act of 2025,” sweeping sanctions legislation targeting Baku’s top brass.

https://t.co/5cGXkBtmr4

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

The Baku Court of Appeal has reviewed the complaint against the pre-trial detention order issued for the chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Ali Karimli.
A harsh police operation was carried out against those who came to support Ali Karimli in front of the court. Police forcibly removed them from the area and detained several individuals.
The appeal was not granted. The decision of the Sabail District Court was upheld.