Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan last reported hate crime data to ODIHR for the 2011 Hate Crime Report. Azerbaijan's hate crime laws are a combination of a general penalty-enhancement provision and a substantive offence. Hate crime data are collected by the Ministry of Interior.

OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2019 Not available Not available Not available
2018 Not available Not available Not available
2017 Not available Not available Not available
2016 Not available Not available Not available
2015 Not available Not available Not available
2014 Not available Not available Not available
2013 Not available Not available Not available
2012 Not available Not available Not available
2011 1 Not available 1
2010 1 Not available Not available
2009 Not available Not available Not available

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Anti-LGBTI hate crime

Gender and Development reported five physical assaults, two of which involved serious injury, including one rape. In four of these cases, the victims were also robbed. All victims were gay men, with the exception of one transgender person.

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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recommended that Azerbaijan establish a system for systematic monitoring of incidents of racial violence and improve the information available to it concerning racist crime.

KEY OBSERVATION

No information is available.