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[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

ALARMING: Azerbaijani journalist Ganimat Zahid warns that the Aliyev regime is preparing a provocation against the family of imprisoned opposition leader Ali Karimli.

Zahid says the operation is being personally directed by Ilham Aliyev and would involve individuals planted among businesses and service providers in the neighbourhood where Karimli’s family lives.

This is an extremely serious warning. We urge diplomats in Baku, international human rights organisations and the international media to take note and closely follow the safety of Ali Karimli’s family.

[fauna @fauna1973]

@AliKarimli #freeAliKerimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

The Independent reports on the case of Ali Karimli, Azerbaijan's imprisoned pro-democracy leader, held for nearly a year on treason charges his lawyers and international observers call fabricated.

Human Rights Watch tells the paper there is no credible evidence he attempted to seize power, and that his case fits "a well-documented pattern" of Azerbaijan jailing its critics on unfounded charges. The deterioration in his treatment after he spoke publicly, HRW says, is "particularly disturbing."

The UK Foreign Office has confirmed, on the record, that it has raised his case with senior Azerbaijani officials and pressed for due process and medical care.

A man held nine months without trial, while his conditions are used to apply pressure, is not a legal case. Azerbaijan's democratic partners have both the standing and the leverage to press for his release. https://t.co/g2IzAWXLIw

[fauna @fauna1973]

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[ismayeddin Qasimov @Qismayeddin7400]

AXCP sədri Əli Kərimli başqa olmaqla rejimin saxta ittihamlarla şərləyib həbs etdirdiyi bütün siyasi məhbuslara azadlıq tələb edirik

[fauna @fauna1973]

@Qismayeddin7400 #freeAliKerimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

For a third month, PFPA Chairman Ali Karimli has been subjected to detention conditions that repeatedly deprive him of normal sleep. Since mid-June, according to his family and lawyers, a detainee placed in his cell has kept him awake through the night, while increasingly punitive restrictions have left him largely cut off from his family and the outside world. His health has seriously deteriorated.

Sleep deprivation is a well-documented method of coercive abuse that can amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Its use against political detainees has a grim history: Stalin’s NKVD employed extreme sleep deprivation through the “conveyor” system of relentless interrogation; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn documented its systematic use in the Soviet prison system; Menachem Begin described enduring it in NKVD custody; Antonio Gramsci suffered prolonged sleep deprivation under Fascist imprisonment; and in 2021 Alexei Navalny said hourly nighttime checks were subjecting him to “torture” through sleep deprivation.

In the 21st century, an internationally recognised opposition leader is enduring conditions that Human Rights Watch says raise serious concerns about inhuman or degrading treatment, while being held on charges HRW has called unfounded.

There comes a point when silence becomes complicity.

#FreeAliKarimli

[fauna @fauna1973]

@AliKarimli #FreeAliKerimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

In a major analysis of Russia’s declining influence across the former Soviet space, Germany’s @welt examines Azerbaijan’s growing geopolitical importance and warns that Europe is deepening ties with the Aliyev government while overlooking serious human-rights abuses, citing the imprisonment and treatment of opposition leader Ali Karimli as a prominent example.
https://t.co/IISTziJv1H

[fauna @fauna1973]

@AliKarimli @welt #freeAliKerimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Damon M. Wilson, President & CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy (@NEDemocracy), joins calls for Ali Karimli's immediate release, citing grave concerns over reports that he has been denied clean water, food, sleep and medical care.

International pressure over Ali Karimli's imprisonment and the wider crackdown on political dissent in Azerbaijan continues to grow.

[fauna @fauna1973]

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[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

⚠️ APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REGARDING THE TREATMENT OF ALI KARIMLI IN DETENTION

Nearly 9 months after Ali Karimli was arrested on wholly fabricated charges, the investigation has produced no evidence and conducted no meaningful inquiry. Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani authorities have continued to worsen his conditions of detention.

Ali Karimli is not being provided with adequate drinking water. A person associated with religious extremist forces has been placed in his cell, posing a threat to his safety. From 11pm, an alarm sounds every 15 minutes and a cellmate loudly performs a ritual until morning, effectively depriving him of sleep.

For more than two months, he has also been denied phone calls and visits with his family. His rights to meet confidentially with his lawyers and exchange written notes with them continue to be violated.

These conditions raise grave concerns under Articles 2, 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Convention against Torture and the Nelson Mandela Rules. Deliberate sleep deprivation and the infliction of psychological suffering constitute inhuman and degrading treatment.

The Azerbaijan Popular Front Party calls on the Azerbaijani public not to remain indifferent.

We call on the international community and diplomatic corps to investigate Ali Karimli’s treatment, visit him in detention, assess his health and conditions firsthand, inform their governments of the situation and take the necessary legal steps.

Ali Karimli must be released.

#FreeAliKarimli #FreeThemAll

[fauna @fauna1973]

@AliKarimli #FreeAliKerimli

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Ali Karimli should be immediately and unconditionally released. - @TLHumanRights

[Nizami @Nizami150132]

Əli Kərimli başda olmaqla bütün siyasi məhbuslara azadlıq tələb edirəm

[Human Rights Solidarity @SolidarityHR]

🚨URGENT APPEAL: Former Secretary of State and Opposition Leader Ali Karimli Endures Systematic Torture in Azerbaijani Detention

We'd like to take attention with the utmost alarm regarding the rapidly deteriorating and life-threatening conditions of Mr. Ali Karimli, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, former Secretary of State

Mr. Karimli has been imprisoned since December 1, 2025, and is currently held in a high-security detention centre operated by the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan. He has consistently dismissed the charges against him as "entirely fabricated and politically motivated." For three decades, Mr. Karimli has been a persistent thorn in the side of the authoritarian Aliyev regime a dynasty that has ruled the former Soviet republic since Heydar Aliyev, an ex-KGB general, handed power to his son, Ilham, in 2003. Azerbaijan, though strategically vital and rich in hydrocarbons, remains tightly controlled under Ilham Aliyev's increasingly repressive leadership.

Since June 10, 2026, when a court extended his pre-trial detention for yet another five months without substantive trial proceedings, Mr. Karimli has been subjected to a systematic, escalating pattern of unlawful restrictions, inhuman treatment, and deliberate psychological pressure. His situation has now reached an extremely critical and humanitarian breaking point.

According to meticulously recorded information provided by his lawyers, family members, and the "Committee for the Protection of Ali Karimli's Rights," the following illegal measures have been deliberately imposed on Mr. Karimli:

1. For more than two months, he has been categorically prohibited from having telephone conversations or personal meetings with his family.

2. He is being held in the same cell with a detainee suffering from a serious psychiatric disorder. Every night, between approximately 3:00 and 4:00 a.m., this individual shouts, injures himself, throws objects, and creates constant disturbances.

3. A special alarm device has been installed directly outside his cell and rings continuously from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.

4. Essential food items brought by his family including sour cream, cheese, cottage cheese, oatmeal, and butter are systematically confiscated.

5. For more than two months, he has been denied any form of physical exercise, and his legally guaranteed right to outdoor walks has been repeatedly and arbitrarily restricted.

6. Waste has not been removed from his cell for over two weeks. Sanitary facilities have not been cleaned for three weeks.

7. For nearly two months, electricity in the cell has been effectively cut off, rendering his television, electric kettle, and fan unusable

8. He has been denied a razor for two weeks and nail clippers for three weeks, in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to degrade his personal dignity

9. He has been denied access to the prison library for two weeks. For nearly two months, he has been cut off from all newspapers, magazines, and external sources of information.

10. Prison authorities confiscated his 130-page manuscript, along with his legal complaints, motions, blank paper, and pens. They have refused to return these items, systematically erasing his intellectual and legal work.

Mr. Karimli collapsed during a court hearing due to severe dehydration after his drinking water was cut off starting August 5. We must draw your urgent attention to a deeply troubling legislative development. On July 23, 2026, President Ilham Aliyev signed amendments to the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On Psychiatric Assistance," introducing new provisions concerning involuntary psychiatric hospitalization and expanding the powers of state authorities in this domain.

We fear that the ongoing, carefully calibrated campaign of sleep deprivation, psychological pressure, extreme heat exposure, dehydration, and inhumane detention conditions is deliberately intended to deteriorate Mr. Karimli's physical and mental health ultimately creating a fabricated medical pretext for his involuntary transfer to a psychiatric institution.

We are profoundly concerned by this timing. We call on Azerbaijani authorities to ensure Mr. Karimli and all prisoners have immediate access to adequate drinking water, ventilation, and necessary medical care, guarantee his due process rights and either bring transparent charges or release him unconditionally.

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[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

We are grateful to the @European_Dems for speaking out so clearly. Their voice matters.

We echo their call for this treatment to end, and we ask Azerbaijan's democratic partners to speak just as clearly, publicly and now.

#FreeAliKarimli #FreeThemAll

[fauna @fauna1973]

@AliKarimli #freeAliKerimli

[Anar Arkivan @AnarArkivan]

#freeAliKarimli