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Contents:

• AZERBAIJAN: ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN
• AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X
• AZERBAIJAN SAYS DETAED DOZENS OFFERG 'SEXUAL SERVIC' AMID REPORTS OF GAY ARRTS
• AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN
• BAKU GAY TRAVEL
• CONCERN ABOUT REPORTED POLICE ABE OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE AZERBAIJAN

AZERBAIJAN: ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN

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AZERBAIJAN WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EUROPE, FDS LGBTI X

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(Berl) – Police Azerbaijan have nducted a vlent mpaign, arrtg and torturg men prumed to be gay or bisexual, as well as transgenr women, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch terviews wh released tae and lawyers nfirmed that sce mid-September, police Baku, Azerbaijan’s pal, have taed dozens of people on dub charg, beatg and g electric shocks on some of them to erce brib and rmatn about other gay men.

“The round-ups Azerbaijan f a faiar horrifyg narrative that explos so-lled tradnal valu to jtify vlence agast sexual and genr mori, ” said Graeme Reid, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights director at Human Rights Watch. “Authori are targetg gay and bisexual men and transgenr women g tactics that dite an tent to ntue, and win, the crackdown.

AZERBAIJAN SAYS DETAED DOZENS OFFERG 'SEXUAL SERVIC' AMID REPORTS OF GAY ARRTS

Human Rights Watch terviewed five gay men, three of whom had been taed durg the September 2017 round-ups, as well as human rights activists and lawyers reprentg dozens of tae var urts Baku. Lawyers Human Rights Watch spoke wh nfirmed the nam of 45 gay and bisexual men, and transgenr women, who were taed and sent by urts to up to 30 days’ admistrative tentn September, along wh at least 10 others who were fed and released immediately. In addn, one of the lawyers said that while the official charge is listed as disobeyg police orrs, “In some wrten official materials at the police statns, I saw that police had wrten that the dividuals were gay or transgenr, and that they were arrted on siwalks as they were shoutg or arrangg sex work.

AZERBAIJAN DETAS DOZENS OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

On September 27, Ehsan Zahidov, spokman for the Internal Affairs Mistry, said that police were rpondg to plats om Baku rints that gay men were visible on the streets. ” He claimed that gay men arrted were tted for sexually transmted diseas, cludg HIV and syphilis.

While the protectn of public health is a legimate tert of the state, nnot jtify the arbrary tentn of dozens of gay men and transgenr women. “Official jtifitns for this anti-gay crackdown are as bog and dangero as the charg police have ed to arrt people, ” Reid said.

BEG GAY AZERBAIJAN

In s 2016 review of Azerbaijan, the UN Human Rights Commtee exprsed ncern about “discrimatn and vlence agast persons on the basis of their sexual orientatn and genr inty, cludg wh the fay and by police and prison officials…and extortn of money om lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons some police statns return for not disclosg their sexual orientatn or genr inty. One of the five gay men terviewed, “Ram, ” who, like others terviewed, is intified by a psdonym for their protectn, told Human Rights Watch: “On September 19, my iend received a Whatsapp msage that a gay guy, whom he did not know before, wanted to meet him to have sex.

“Val, ” a 27-year-old gay man, said: “On September 18, two people pla cloth knocked on my door the afternoon. It was the hoe where several of gay guys lived together. “Elgiz, ” a 21-year-old gay man Baku told Human Rights Watch he was at his male partner’s apartment alone on September 20 when the landlord knocked on the door.

BAKU GAY TRAVEL

And “Taleh, ” a 26-year-old gay man said that on September 18, six pla-cloth officials mand to see his and his iends’ intifitn documents when they were stg central Baku’s Founta Square. “We had heard that there were some raids on gays, and I had ID wh me, so I showed , ” he said.

“[An officer] looked very closely at my face and told me that I am gay. Authori appear to have gathered signifint amounts of telligence regardg prumed gay and bisexual men, their sexual partners, and possible sex work clients – both through past raids and surveillance, and the tensified mpaign, rried out September 2017. My gay partner was om a well-off fay and rather rich.

He was gay but hidg his sexual orientatn om his fay. From my phone, they reached some of my partners and some very rpected [wealthy] gay persons, and they began to blackmail them [on the premise that] they had an affair wh me.

CONCERN ABOUT REPORTED POLICE ABE OF GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE AZERBAIJAN

When Elgiz and his partner were taken to the Organized Crime Un, he said, he regnized eight other gay men who were also held there.

He said: “Together wh my iend there were 20-30 transgenr and gay people at the statn.