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Azerbaijan: Dirty deeds and cover ups

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Development, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Protest, Youth

Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines, one of the moderators of a Facebook group [1] calling for pro-democracy protests in Azerbaijan on 11 March comments on the arrest of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev [2], one of the other online organizers. Noting that the Harvard graduate has been reportedly beaten, tortured and threated with rape, the blog concludes that recent post-Egypt developments designed to appease critics in the oil-rich former Soviet republic are little more than a cover up for dirty deeds by the authorities [3].