We are advocating for the release of Armenian hostages detained by Azerbaijan, and for that, we need your assistance.
We have launched this petition directed to several OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) high-ranking officials to initiate mechanisms available to the OSCE to assess Azerbaijan’s legal and administrative practice in light of its commitments to the OSCE, establish the facts, and provide recommendations and advice.
Every day counts for the well-being and lives of these prisoners. The international community must put pressure on Azerbaijan and its president, Ilham Aliyev, to stop committing gross human rights violations and release all illegally detained prisoners.
Please sign our petition and help free the Armenian hostages being illegally held in Baku.
Defend the Rights of the Armenian Hostages in Baku
Signature count: 668 /
Signatures goal: 1000
Defend the Rights of the Armenian Hostages in Baku
Your Excellency,
In light of the escalating repression of the rights and freedoms of political opponents, independent and foreign media, as well as the grave violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in Azerbaijan, the OSCE participating States that uphold human rights principles can no longer remain passive.
Numerous United Nations bodies, parliamentary assemblies, and European Parliament resolutions have called for action.
It seems particularly urgent to establish a commission of experts to investigate and report on the concerns identified as severe violations of the OSCE’s human dimension commitments by the Republic of Azerbaijan. Priority should be given to the conditions of arrest, detention, and trial of political opponents and political prisoners in general, as well as to practices targeting prisoners of Armenian origin from the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. These practices reflect a policy of hatred and racial discrimination that is incompatible with the idea of peace.
This mission should assess Azerbaijan’s legal and administrative practices, considering its commitments to the OSCE, establish the facts, and issue recommendations.
To this end, we respectfully request Your Excellency’s decisive action through the Permanent Council, the Human Dimension Committee, and the mobilization of OSCE participating States to invoke paragraph 12 of the 1991 Moscow Document of the OSCE Conference on the Human Dimension (“Moscow Mechanism”), as was done in the context of a recent conflict (Ukraine/Russia) or a similar situation in Belarus.
