Urgent Appeal of Human Rights House Tbilisi and Its Member Organizations Regarding the persecution of human rights defenders in Azerbaijan

Human Rights House Tbilisi and its member organizations are deeply concerned regarding the unprecedented crackdown against human rights defenders by the Azerbaijani government. Over the last two weeks, the Azerbaijani government arrested four human rights defenders, well-known and critical leaders of the civil society in the country. All were arrested with similar charges (tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship and abuse of authority inter alia, in addition to treason charges). 

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