Fərhad Səlimov

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli The Azerbaijani authorities want to silence their opponent through torture.

[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

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli @welt #freeAliKarimli

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli @welt The Azerbaijani authorities have turned the country into a camp of repression.

[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.
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[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli @NEDemocracy The Azerbaijani authorities have turned the country into a camp of repression.

[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.

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@DamonMacWilson The Azerbaijani authorities have turned the country into a camp of repression.

[Damon M. Wilson @DamonMacWilson]

The treatment of prominent Azerbaijani opposition leader Ali Karimli is unconscionable. Reports that he is being deprived of clean water, adequate food, sleep, and medical care raise grave concerns for his health and safety.

Azerbaijani authorities must end this abuse, ensure his safety, and release him immediately – along with all those unjustly imprisoned for peaceful political activity.

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli The Azerbaijani authorities have turned the country into a camp of repression.

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Amnesty International raises the alarm over the grave risks facing Ali Karimli and other imprisoned government critics in Azerbaijan.

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@amnistia The Azerbaijani authorities have turned the country into a camp of repression.

[amnistia . org @amnistia]

The health of imprisoned government critics in Azerbaijan is at grave risk as another political activist faces the threat of extradition

Authorities must stop targeting dissidents and ensure access to adequate medical care

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[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli The international community should not remain silent about Ali Karimli's arrest and demand his immediate release from the Azerbaijani authorities.

[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

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

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

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@TLHumanRights #FreeAliKarimli

[Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission @TLHumanRights]

Azerbaijani opposition politician Ali Karimli is being subject to increasingly punitive detention conditions during his politically-motivated persecution by Azerbaijani authorities. He should be immediately and unconditionally released.

[Fərhad Səlimov @ferhadselimov]

@AliKarimli Free Ali Karimli!

[Ali Karimli @AliKarimli]

Amnesty International warns that Ali Karimli’s treatment in detention “may amount to torture or other ill-treatment.”

According to his family, he fainted from severe dehydration during a court hearing on 6 August after drinking water to his cell had reportedly been cut off.

Amnesty is calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to ensure immediate access to adequate drinking water, ventilation and necessary medical care.

#FreeAliKarimli #FreeThemAll

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