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Women s rights campaigners in Azerbaijan endure reprisals and harassment

Women’s rights campaigners in Azerbaijan ‘endure reprisals and harassment’ Maya Oppenheim © Provided by The Independent Women’s rights campaigners in Azerbaijan are being forced to endure reprisals and harassment, a leading human rights organisation has warned. Amnesty International said authorities in the country are wielding a “smear campaign” to gag and defame activists with more than two dozen women targeted in the crackdown. At least 15 women are said to have been harassed by the security forces - which have the support of the government - in the Caucasus region nation in the last two years. This troubling state-sanctioned abuse spans from being blackmailed through social media accounts as well as being accused of being “bad wives” or “bad mothers” and having private conversations leaked to the public - with the latter sometimes being sexual, the charity said.

Women s rights campaigners in Azerbaijan endure reprisals and harassment

Women’s rights campaigners in Azerbaijan are being forced to endure reprisals and harassment, a leading human rights organisation has warned. Amnesty International said authorities in the country are wielding a “smear campaign” to gag and defame activists with more than two dozen women targeted in the crackdown. At least 15 women are said to have been harassed by the security forces - which have the support of the government - in the Caucasus.

Azerbaijan: Authorities using smear campaign to silence women activists - new briefing

Women s movement in Azerbaijan © Ulviyya Ali More than two dozen women targeted by government-backed smear campaign Private photos and intimate conversations made public, and women labelled ‘bad wives’ and ‘bad mothers’ ‘This is part of a deliberate strategy to muzzle critics of the Government’ - Natalia Nozadze Women who have played a prominent role in campaigning for women’s rights in Azerbaijan are being subject to reprisals and threats, Amnesty International said in a new briefing today (12 May). In the new briefing, Azerbaijan: Gender-based reprisals against women must stop, Amnesty shows how the Azerbaijani authorities have sought to defame and silence women activists.

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