{"id":116016,"date":"2025-07-27T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/?p=116016"},"modified":"2025-07-27T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:09:50","slug":"eu-criticized-for-tolerating-baku-amid-azerbaijan-gas-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2025\/07\/27\/eu-criticized-for-tolerating-baku-amid-azerbaijan-gas-push\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Criticized For Tolerating Baku Amid Azerbaijan Gas Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"378\"><strong>When Bahruz Samadov, a 30-year-old peace activist and PhD student, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for high treason in <a href=\"https:\/\/africadailynews.net\/2022\/10\/29\/putin-set-to-host-talks-between-rivals-azerbaijan-armenia\/\">Azerbaijan,<\/a> many of his friends reportedly directed their outrage not just at the government that jailed him, but also at the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"380\" data-end=\"582\">Samadov, who is said to have consistently rejected the charge as baseless, is believed to be facing one of the harshest penalties ever handed down to a critic of President Ilham Aliyev\u2019s 21-year regime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"839\">Observers noted that some critics accused the EU of turning a blind eye to Baku\u2019s authoritarianism. One unnamed critic was quoted as saying that while the EU might continue to \u201cflirt with Baku,\u201d its silence on human rights violations would come at a cost.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"841\" data-end=\"1053\">Following Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had described Azerbaijan as a \u201ckey partner\u201d in efforts to reduce the bloc\u2019s dependence on Russian gas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1340\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Since then, analysts said, President Aliyev had consolidated power by retaking the breakaway Karabakh region\u2014triggering the exodus of its entire Armenian population\u2014won a fifth term in an election widely criticised by observers, and intensified crackdowns on dissent and press freedom.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"411\">The European Parliament had urged the EU last year to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan and to reduce its dependency on the country\u2019s gas exports. However, according to analysts and rights groups, senior EU foreign policy officials have continued to refrain from publicly criticising President Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"710\">When EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Baku in April, her comments highlighting the &#8220;great potential&#8221; for EU-Azerbaijan relations reportedly drew sharp backlash from Aliyev\u2019s critics. At the time of her visit, at least 21 prominent journalists were said to be in detention in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"710\"><strong>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/02\/13\/azerbaijan-border-tensions-four-armenian-soldiers-killed\/\">Azerbaijan Border Tensions: Four Armenian Soldiers Killed<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"956\">President Aliyev has defended the arrests by stating that they were necessary to protect the country\u2019s media space from what he described as \u201cexternal negative influences.\u201d He also accused the journalists of receiving foreign funding illegally.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"1267\">Observers noted that Aliyev has consistently accused international organisations of bias and interference in Azerbaijan\u2019s internal affairs. Over the years, the Baku offices of global institutions such as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the BBC have been ordered to close.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1269\" data-end=\"1791\">Commenting on the EU\u2019s posture, Eldar Mamedov, a former Latvian diplomat and one-time foreign policy adviser to the Social Democrat group in the European Parliament, remarked that the bloc\u2019s stance had effectively granted Aliyev \u201ca free hand.\u201d Mamedov observed that repression in Azerbaijan\u2014including the detention of bloggers, activists, and opposition figures\u2014had long strained EU-Azerbaijan relations, but claimed that this issue had largely disappeared from the EU agenda since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1793\" data-end=\"1869\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The European Union, however, has officially rejected such characterisations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/\">Africa Today News, New York<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bahruz Samadov, a 30-year-old peace activist and PhD student, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for high treason in Azerbaijan, many of his friends reportedly directed their outrage not just at the government that jailed him, but also at the European Union. 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