UNSOLVEDListenBaku, Azerbaijan SSR · 1990
In January 1990, Soviet troops crushed an Azerbaijani nationalist movement in Baku, killing an estimated 133–147 civilians and wounding hundreds during a military crackdown ordered under a state of emergency.
UNSOLVEDListenSite of the former Armenian cemetery, Julfa (Jugha), Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic · 1994
A medieval Armenian cemetery in Julfa, Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan), containing thousands of khachkars and other funerary monuments, was systematically destroyed between the late 1990s and mid-2000s; satellite analysis in 2010 confirmed the site had been leveled, and Azerbaijan has denied responsibility.
SOLVEDListenBaku, Azerbaijan · 2022
Azerbaijani journalist and LGBT rights activist Avaz Hafizli was murdered on February 22, 2022, in the courtyard of his apartment in Baku by his cousin, who was later convicted of intentional murder.
UNSOLVEDListenAbu Bakr Mosque, Baku, Azerbaijan · 2008
On August 17, 2008, a grenade was thrown into the Abu Bakr mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan during evening prayer, killing three people and injuring eleven others.
The files run from 1990 to 2022. The 1990s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Black January, from 1990.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (1), hate crime cases (1) and kidnapping and abduction cases (1).
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5. By status: 3 unsolved, 1 ongoing and 1 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Black January, from 1990. Open the file
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