Torture in Azerbaijan: Europe looks away

In November 2023, several journalists and a member of the administrative team from Abzas, an online investigative media specialising in human rights in Azerbaijan, were arrested by the country's authorities. A few days later, Forbidden Stories, an international consortium of investigative journalists, announced that it was continuing Abzas's work.

As part of a consortium of French and international media organisations, RFI and FRANCE 24 are continuing the imprisoned journalists' investigations into corruption by the Azerbaijani authorities. The work is being published by a dozen partner media outlets.

Forbidden Stories is an international network of journalists whose mission is to pursue the investigations of journalists who have been murdered, threatened or imprisoned. Since its creation in 2017, more than 150 journalists and 60 media outlets have taken part in the collaborative investigations coordinated by Forbidden Stories, including "The Rafael Project", "Story Killers" and "The Pegasus Project".

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