{"id":109,"date":"2023-02-24T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:36:15","slug":"echr-rules-azerbaijans-refusal-to-register-public-initiatives-center-a-violation-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"ECHR Rules Azerbaijan\u2019s Refusal to Register Public Initiatives Center a Violation of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities\u2019 refusal to register the Public Initiatives Center \u2013 Public Association constitutes a violation of the right to freedom of association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its decision of 23 February 2023 (Application No. 79522\/13), the Court recognized the unlawful nature of the government\u2019s refusal and ordered the registration of the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the ECHR judgment, the Azerbaijani government has continued to deny registration to the Public Initiatives Center, in contravention of the Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echrcaselaw.com\/en\/echr-decisions\/by-article\/arbitrary-refusal-of-ngo-registration-violation-of-freedom-of-association\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.echrcaselaw.com\/en\/echr-decisions\/by-article\/arbitrary-refusal-of-ngo-registration-violation-of-freedom-of-association\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities\u2019 refusal to register the Public Initiatives Center \u2013 Public Association constitutes a violation of the right to freedom of association. In its decision of 23 February 2023 (Application No. 79522\/13), the Court recognized the unlawful nature of the government\u2019s refusal and ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picaz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}