My principled friends, PFPA activists, and my voluntary bodyguards, Kenan Basqal and Novruz Tagiyev, have had their detention extended for another three months. Neither Kenan nor Novruz has committed a crime—or even the most minor legal infraction.
21.09.2025 18:05 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
They first took independent politician Azer Gasimli’s money — now they’ve taken his freedom.
Today, together with National Council chairman Jamil Hasanli and our colleagues from the Popular Front, we attended the trial of political prisoner Azer Gasimli.
10.09.2025 20:01 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Лидеру азербайджанской оппозиции уже 20 лет не позволяют выехать заграницу
Лидера азербайджанской оппозиции, главу партии «Народный фронт» Али Керимли не выпускают из страны - власти не выдают ему загранпаспорт.
Лидера азербайджанской оппозиции, главу партии «Народный фронт» Али Керимли не выпускают из страны — власти не выдают ему загранпаспорт.
По его словам, он получил приглашение на Варшавский форум по безопасности.
www.kavkasia.net/azerbaijan/2...
07.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The founder of Abzas Media, political prisoner Ulvi Hasanli, who was falsely accused and sentenced to 9 years in prison, has been nominated for the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize of the Council of Europe.
27.08.2025 12:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
What a tragedy—for the lives and freedoms of our compatriots tortured to death and unlawfully imprisoned in Russia. Yet the Azerbaijani government, as though nothing had happened and without a single demand being met, has restored its alliance with Moscow.
23.08.2025 09:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Russia Is Losing the South Caucasus
Ali Karimli sees the recent Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal as a sign that Vladimir Putin has overreached in the region.
The peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, announced recently at the White House, is perhaps the clearest sign yet that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s heavy-handed interventions in the South Caucasus have backfired, writes @alikarimli.bsky.social. bit.ly/3JAvjkj
15.08.2025 09:21 — 👍 22 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
Azerbaijan - United States Department of State
The Aliyev regime did not expect this blow. It believed that the USA would turn a blind eye to its persecution of Azerbaijani citizens. At such a time, the U.S. Department of State released its report on the state of human rights and freedoms around the world for 2024.
www.state.gov/reports/2024...
14.08.2025 11:25 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Let’s hope that no problems arise in the remaining hours and that the peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, announced by U.S. President D. Trump, will be signed today in Washington.
08.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
I remain in Baku despite arrests, beatings & surveillance because the fight for Azerbaijan’s democracy must be waged from within.
This is my life’s mission. I’m ready to pay any price to dismantle dictatorship and restore democracy.
fr.de/politik/suedka…
03.08.2025 06:32 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
On one hand, Azerbaijan tells Ukraine “Never accept occupation.”
On the other, it enables the occupying force—Russia—to bypass international sanctions and sell oil via Azerbaijani-owned tankers, helping fund its war. This is what’s described as a “balanced” foreign policy. 1/4
26.07.2025 17:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
It is deeply unfortunate that only after 7 months of precious time lost has Ilham Aliyev arrived at the position we advocated from the very beginning. 1/9
21.07.2025 09:29 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The crisis in Azerbaijan's economy is deepening.
As the economic policy—defined and implemented solely by Ilham Aliyev, and heavily based on corruption and monopoly—has collapsed, the country's overall economy is sliding into an even deeper crisis. (1/8)
18.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Waży się los Kaukazu Południowego. Azerbejdżan zerwie z Rosją?
Wczoraj sojusznik, dzisiaj wróg. Konflikt Rosji z Azerbejdżanem może przesądzić o przyszłości całego regionu. – Rosja tradycyjnie traktuje swoich sąsiadów nie j
One of Poland's most influential press outlets, the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, has published a large and comprehensive article about the tensions between Azerbaijan and Russia. A portion of that extensive piece consists of an interview with me.
www.rp.pl/polityka/art...
07.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Breaking With Russia Is Not In Aliyev's Interests"
Azerbaijani opposition leader told how the crisis between Baku and Moscow will develop.
A break with Russia is also not in the interests of Ilham Aliyev himself. First, there is the factor of millions of Azerbaijanis living in Russia. Secondly, the current contradictions, there is ideological affinity between Aliyev and Putin.
charter97.org/en/news/2025...
03.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Russia-Azerbaijan Tensions Soar, Threatening Moscow’s Influence
According to Ali Karimli, Azerbaijan’s former secretary of state and now an opposition politician, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan “has built a classic authoritarian regime and maintains a monopoly over both political and economic life.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/w...
02.07.2025 19:50 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The article I wrote for Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper, has generated significant international resonance. My article was also shared by Ukraine’s reputable media outlet Obozrevatel, making it accessible to both Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking readers.
01.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The ceasefire achieved in the Israel-Iran war is overall good news for our region.
I hope that both countries will adhere to the ceasefire achieved today and that the parties will be able to reach an agreement on peace.
24.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
As you may know, Germany’s current Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, came to power after defeating former Chancellor Olaf Scholz in national elections. Yet today, the Merz administration recognises that Scholz’s knowledge and experience remain of strategic value.
21.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A verdict was delivered in the fabricated criminal case against the Abzas Media journalist collective. The journalists have already been imprisoned for 19 months.
20.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Russian officials have resumed their threats against Azerbaijan.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned Baku about the “risks” of cooperating with NATO. Just 2 day ago, President Putin’s aide, Vladimir Medinsky, referred to Karabakh as a “disputed territory.”
12.06.2025 13:58 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
In a country where over 10000 students are expelled from university each year because they can't afford tuition, a lavish new headquarters has been built for the State Customs Committee, an institution that already occupied a perfectly adequate building. Aliyev himself attended the opening ceremony.
11.06.2025 11:46 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The Azerbaijani government no longer even tries to hide or disguise its repression. Ilham Aliyev is carrying out repression against those close to me openly, in full view of the public, in a completely transparent manner.
09.06.2025 12:48 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
The "Spider Web" operation carried out yesterday by Ukrainian intelligence on Russian territory, which resulted in the destruction of 41 strategic Russian bombers, has ushered in an entirely new situation in the Russia-Ukraine war.
02.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
At the Republic Day celebration we held on May 28th in Novxanı, in front of the monument to Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, alongside the flags of Azerbaijan and the PFPA, we also raised the flag of the EU.
This act deeply unsettled the authorities.
30.05.2025 11:37 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
I met with the European Union Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mr. Peter Michalko. During our meeting, we discussed the current socio-political situation in Azerbaijan, the state of Azerbaijan-EU relations, and their future prospects.
26.05.2025 18:53 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Ilham Aliyev, with today’s pardon decree, has not released a single Azerbaijani political prisoner. With this, Ilham Aliyev has sent a message to our people and to the international community: he no longer feels the need for even a cover-up. He is personally the author of the repressive policy.
26.05.2025 11:28 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1