Women's rights campaigners in Azerbaijan 'endure reprisals a

Women’s rights campaigners in Azerbaijan ‘endure reprisals and harassment’
Maya Oppenheim
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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.

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