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Rashadat Akhundov (Azerbaijani: Rəşadət Axundov, born on August 7, 1984, Beylagan) is a youth activist and co-founder of N!DA Civic Movement. He was arrested on March 30, 2013 a few days after the protests held in Baku against the non-combat deaths in the military.[1][2] Akhundov was accused in preparing the riots during the protests. International human rights organization, Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience.[3] He was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment on May 6, 2014,[4] but later pardoned and released on March 17, 2016 being imprisoned for three years.[5]
^2 more NIDA members arrested
^Rashadat Akhundov`s interview for Voice of America
^Downward spiral: Continuing crackdown on freedoms in Azerbaijan, Amnesty International, October 2013 release, p. 16
^Rumeli Observer - ESI, NIDA’s “Live not by Lies” Baku Court Speech, 6 May 2014
RashadatAkhundov (Azerbaijani: Rəşadət Axundov, born on August 7, 1984, Beylagan) is a youth activist and co-founder of N!DA Civic Movement. He was arrested...
in the fields of art and activism, including Azerbaijani dissident RashadatAkhundov and filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray. Notable Central European University...
civic movement, Rashad Hasanov, Zaur Gurbanli, Uzeyir Mammadli and RashadatAkhundov. The ECHR found their arrest in 2013 unlawful, seeing in this violation...
Mammadli and Zaur Gurbanli were released. The rest of the activists, RashadatAkhundov, Rashad Hasanov, Mammad Azizov and Omar Mammadov were pardoned and...
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the Committee for Protection of Youth Rights. Nida Civic Movement RashadatAkhundov Zaur Gurbanli Rashad Hasanov "2 more NIDA members arrested". Archived...
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