Urgent Action Network blog

Inspired by events in the Middle East and North Africa, 19-year-old Jabbar Savalan used facebook to call for protests against the Azerbaijan government. The next day he was arrested, and later convicted on fabricated drugs charges. He...

Yes, it’s true, Eynulla Fatullayev has been freed under presidential pardon . What a rollercoaster of a couple of days! On Tuesday, we launched a twitter action to free Eynulla Fatullayev , the Azerbaijani journalist who has been...

Our Twitter action yesterday for wrongly-imprisoned Azerbaijan journalist Eynulla Fatullayev certainly had an impact in Azerbaijan and here in the UK. Our message to President Aliyev – “Eynulla Fatullayevi Azad et!”, or “Free Eynulla...

Two years ago at the Amnesty UK Media Awards, we honoured Azerbaijani newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev with the AIUK Special Award for Journalism Under Threat. Eynulla is an outspoken journalist who has been imprisoned since 2007 on...

The Egyptian authorities must amend existing legislation to better protect women in Egypt, and ensure they play an active role in reforms. Women played a key role during the 18 days of protest that led to former president Hosni Mubarak...