The Report on Human Rights Abuse in Azerbaijan in 2008-2011
AZOH: The Azerbaijani student movement "AZOH" aims to present a summary of events in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
The AZOHs’ Investigation Committee tries to inform the world about Azerbaijani people’s innocence by searching in numerous websites and media. Of course, the summary described below does not show the whole story in Azerbaijan; there are a lot of secret events because of governmental threatening.
Some examples of this tragedy in (2008.3 – 2009.3):
One execution
Three suspicious deaths
258 arrested
Seven deprived of Master’s degree studies
Three cases of expulsion from university
One case of expulsion from school
1228 lashes
37 million Rials of fine
An unbelievable punishment: 159 years of imprisonment for 94 people.
In 2008 in 1 detention took place every 34 hours and every Azerbaijani political activist was sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment.
Some examples of this tragedy in (2009.3 – 2010.3):
Three suspicious deaths
249 detentions
14 deprived of studying master’s degree
6 cases of expulsion from university
1 case of expulsion from school
689 lashes
23 million Rials of fine
And 89 years of imprisonment for 59 person
In fact, there was a detention every 35 hours and 17 months of imprisonment for every political activist.
Some examples of this tragedy in (2010.3 – 2011.3):
265 detentions
83 years of imprisonment
80 million Rials of fine
125 lashes for 35 Azerbaijani political activists
2 suspicious deaths
And 6 deprived of studying master’s degree
On the whole, there was a detention every 33 hours and every Azerbaijani political activist was imprisoned for 28 months.
The received report has indicated that in the first 3 months of 2011, 1 Azerbaijani political activist was arrested every 18 hours while this happened every 34, 35 and 33 hours in 2008, 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Some examples of this tragedy in (2011.3 – 2011.7):
1 suspicious death
125 arrested
2 deprived of studying master’s degree
1 case of expulsion from university
And more than 21 years of imprisonment for 28 people
This means 1 detention has happened every 18 hours and also each Azerbaijani political activist has been imprisoned for 9 months in spring 2011. This is a very short report on the large extent of Iranian regime's violence against the Azerbaijani people; people who just have been sentenced for demanding human rights.
AZOHs’ Investigation Committee hopes publishing this report in circles of human rights in Iran and encourages them to help Azerbaijani political prisoners.
Prepared by: Southern Azerbaijan Student Movement- AZOH