APA reports that Azerbaijan-related part of the Report on Human Rights Practices for 2012 covers issues on human rights and democracy activists. “Restrictions on freedom of assembly” part of the report envisages that while the government approved three peaceful protests in the spring and released all persons arrested for participating in protests in spring 2011, it limited approved demonstrations to a location far from the center of Baku and often detained demonstrators.
Executive influence over the judiciary and inadequate compensation for property taken by the state were also mentioned as problems in the report.
The report also covers situation in police or military custody, restrictions on the religious freedom of some unregistered Muslim and Christian groups and official impediments to the registration of human rights nongovernmental organizations.
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