Dünyanın hər tərəfindən Cabbar Savalanın azadlığı üçün hərəkət edən minlərlə Amnesty International tərəfdarlarına qoşulmaq üçün bu səhifəni ziyarət etdiyinizə görə təşəkkür edirik.

Cabbar yalnız 19 yaşı olarkən Fevral ayında həbs olunmuşdur. İndi isə o, Facebook vasitəsilə Azərbaycan hakimiyyəti əleyhinə etirazlara çağırışları da daxil olmaqla, Azərbaycan hakimiyyətinə qarşı dinc fəaliyyətlərinə görə cəzalandırılması üçün qanunsuz narkotik saxlamaq barədə qondarma ittihamla 2 il yarım müddətinə həbsxana cəzası çəkir. Biz onun vicdan məhbusu olduğuna inanırıq.

Azərbaycanın Prezidentinə Yazın:

Biz Cabbar Savalanın dərhal azad edilməsını tələb edən məktubun çərçivəsini  yaratmışıq. Daha ətraflı məlumat alın və bizim aksiyaya qoşulun – lütfən nəzərə alın ki bu link sizi yalnız İngilis dilində olan bir səhifəyə aparacaq.

Avropa Kommissiyasının Prezidentinə elektron petisiyamızı imzalayın

Təəssüf ki, Cabbarın işi yeganə bir hal deyil. Bəxtiyar Haciyev, Tural Abbaslı və Rüfət Hacıbəyli kimi gənc fəallar da həbsdə vidan məhbusları kimi saxlanırlar. Onlar barədə, Azərbaycan, Rus və İngilis dillərində dərc olunmuş “Onların susdurulmasına imkan verməyin: Səslərini ucaltdıqları üçün məhbus edilmiş Azərbaycan fəallları” adlı hesabatımızda oxuya bilərsiniz.

Biz inanırıq ki, Azərbaycan hakimiyyətinin müxalif düşüncələrə qarşı zorakılıqları getdikcə sərtləşdikcə, beynəlxalq icmanın Azərbaycanlılara öz hüquqlarından istifadə etmələri uğrunda mübarizələrində verdikləri dəstək artmalıdır. Lütfən Avropa Kommissiyasının Prezidenti Xose Manuel Barrosoya ünvanlanmış elektron petisiyamızı imzalayın. Petisiya yalnız İngilis dilindədir, amma onun məzmunu aşağıdakı kimidir:

Avropa Kommissiyası ikitərəfli ticarət əlaqələrinə nəzarət etdiyinə görə, biz Avropa Komissiyasının prezidenti Xose Manuel Barrosonu aşağıdakılara cağırırıq:

• Azərbaycanla ticari danışıqlarda əməkdaşlıq edilərkən Avropa İttifaqının Azərbaycanda xalqın insan haqlarına hörmətin müdafiəsinin əhəmiyyətli dərəcədə yaxşılaşdırlmasına fikir verməsinin təmin edilməsinə;
• Zəruri olduqda ayrı-ayrı fərdlərin hüquqlarının pozulması məsələsinin Avropa İttifaqının İnsan Haqları Müdafiəçiləri qaydalarına uyğun olaraq qaldırılmasına;
• Azərbaycan hakimiyyəti ilə bütün dialoqlarda Cabbar Savalanın, Bəxtiyar Hacıyevin, Tural Abbaslının və Rüfət Hacıbəylinin dərhal və qeyd-şərtsiz azadlığa buraxılmasına çağırış etməsinə.

Adınızı Avropa Kommissiyasına ünvanlanmış petisiyamıza

Lütfən nəzərə alın ki, sizi bu səhifəyə gətirən Facebook reklamlarında Cabbar Savalan üçün hərəkət edən insanların sayını göstərən rəqəm avtomatik dəyişmir – onu özümüz yeniləyirik. Hərəkət etdikdən sonra eyni reklamlarda eyni rəqəmləri görsəniz, narahat olmayın – sizin hərəkətiniz də sayılacaq! Sizə təşəkkür edirik.

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Thank you for visiting this page to join thousands of Amnesty International supporters around the world in taking action for Jabbar Savalan.

Jabbar was arrested in February when he was just 19 years old. He is now serving a two-and-a-half year prison sentence after being convicted on drugs charges trumped up to punish him for his peaceful anti-government activities, including using Facebook to call for protests against the Azerbaijani government. We believe he is a prisoner of conscience.

Write to the President of Azerbaijan

We’ve created a template letter to send to President Aliyev calling for Jabbar Savalan to be released immediately. Find out more and join our action.

Sign our e-petition to the President of the European Commission

Unfortunately, Jabbar’s is not an isolated case. Other young activists currently being held as prisoners of conscience in Azerbaijan include Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, Tural Abbasli and Rufat Hajibaili. You can read more about their cases in our report “Don’t let them be silenced: Azerbaijani activists imprisoned for speaking out”, available in Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
As the Azerbaijani authorities crack down ever harder on dissent, we believe the international community must also do more to support Azerbaijanis struggling to exercise their rights. Please sign our e-petition to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission.

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It has been a momentous week in Egypt but unfortunately also a very violent one – as the people continue to call for change, the authorities in the country have launched a sweeping crackdown, aggressively suppressing peaceful protests.

Yesterday we heard the shocking news that two Amnesty staff members and a Human Rights Watch researcher were among 30 human rights activists, journalists and others who were detained by the Egyptian security forces after a raid on the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre in Cairo.

Having put themselves at risk to get vital information out of the country, our colleagues were unfortunate enough to become part of the story. Please join us in calling for their immediate release, and the immediate release of all international observers, journalists and Egyptian human rights defenders. Take action now

We are working with the UK Government to secure the release of our staff members and all other human rights activists that have been detained, as well as asking them to stand in solidarity with the Egyptian people at this important time.

Alongside our partners, which include Human Rights Watch, the International Trade Union Federation, AVAAZ and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, we are coordinating a global campaign of solidarity to stop the crackdown. We should be able to update you on a Global Day of Action on 12 February soon so watch this space.

Follow Amnesty UK on Twitter for our latest updates, and check out our community editor’s list of people tweeting on the ground

Update: Amnesty staff members were among five human rights workers and journalists freed by Egyptian military police late on Friday night. As of Saturday afternoon all of the people detained in the raid on Hisham Mubarak Law Center are reported to have been released. Thanks to the 11,000 of you that took action calling for this to happen.

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By Niall Couper
Amnesty International UK

Journalists are often at the forefront of defending human rights. It is their dedication and resolve that can help uncover unfolding atrocities, atrocities that some governments would prefer to be kept out of the public eye.

In the last few weeks, stories about China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and Burma have been firmly in the public eye. All because of the hard-work and dedication of brave journalists.

However, the path to human rights journalism does not begin from the moment an individual becomes a professional reporter. And that is a point Amnesty International has been keen to recognise.

From today, aspiring human rights journalists from 7 to 21 will be able to enter a range of brand new Amnesty International competitions

In association with Guardian Learn, there are competitions for 7-11 year olds and 11-14 year olds – both of which ask pupils to submit an article of between 200 and 250 words.

Then with the secondary school teachers’ magazine, SecEd, Amnesty is running competitions for 14-16 year olds and 16-18 year olds. Here we are looking for entries of up to 500 words. Find out more (pdf).

And finally to complete the road, Amnesty has teamed up with the Mirror and the NUS to launch our new Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year Award. Individual entries will be limited to 1000 words or up to 10 minutes in length.

All of the competitions are looking for entries around the topic of human rights. People can write about their own experiences or their take on an existing human rights issue.

Some of the issues people could write about include: bullying, refugees, world poverty, child labour, a profile of a human rights campaigner, freedom of expression, the death penalty and the human rights record of the governments of countries like China, Iran or Burma.

This year will see Amnesty International UK host its 20th Media Awards. The event celebrates the very best of human rights journalism with 11 awards covering the full range of media outlets – from national newspapers to websites, and from magazines to radio documentaries.

Our first Media Awards were held in 1992 – before most of the entrants for the new competitions would have been born.

One of the first regional journalist winners was Ian Cobain who won for a piece on the manufacture of leg irons in Birmingham in the Express & Star. Last year he won the national newspaper category for a piece on Britain’s complicity in torture in Pakistan in the Guardian.

Two decades from now, who knows what accolades the winners of the 2011 competitions will have earned.

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Once a year, every year, Amnesty International and a whole host of other organisations get together to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK. It’s important we celebrate the concept of sanctuary and fully recognise the significant cultural, social and economical role that asylum seekers and refugees play in their country of refuge. The aim of the week is to foster cross-community understanding and to demystify some of the common misconceptions about refugees.

This year we’ll start celebrating on the 15th and there’s plenty you can do to get involved.

Take Action

From reading a book about exile, to cooking a meal from another cuisine or inviting a refugee round for a cup of tea: There’s many small things we can all do to change the perception of refugees within the UK. Head over to the Simple Acts campaign and find a little thing that you can do to make the UK a better place for everyone.

There’s also a lot we need to do to ensure our Government starts to treat refugees and asylum seekers in a fair and humane way. Failed asylum seekers in particular are often left destitute, with no support, and forced to return to countries where they have already faced persecution and violence. You can help these individuals by emailing your MP now.

Attend an Event

A big part of Refugee Week is about celebrating, and a great way to do this is by heading to a rally, going to an art exhibition or attending one of the many other diverse events that are being organised across the country. You can find a full list of events in your area here, but check out our map for some highlights.

View Refugee Week Events in a larger map

If you’re in London you can also buy tickets for The Container, a play about asylum and persecution. Performed to just 28 audience members, all locked inside a shipping container, it provides the vivid experience asylum seekers must endure to reach our country. It’s showing at The Young Vic in association with Amnesty International from the 15th July.

Take part online

If you can’t make it to any events, there’s plenty more you can do online to get involved. Here are just a few options…

• Follow AmnestyUK and Simple_Acts on Twitter for all the latest news throughout the week
• Join the Simple Acts campaign on Facebook
• Read a blog about UK asylum seekers and refugees
• Tell us what the word ‘refuge’ means to you. Loads of people have already done this, you’ll find one of them in the video below, and a bunch of others on Wordia.

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