Reporters - Azerbaijan, The Baku Connection: "They will not stop our investigations by arresting us one by one". As the February 7 presidential election approaches, repression has increased in Azerbaijan.

Any opposition to the president… . In November 2023, several journalists and a member of the administrative team of the investigative online media Abzas, specializing in human rights in Azerbaijan, were arrested by the country's authorities. A few days later, the international consortium of investigative journalists Forbidden Stories announced that it was continuing the work of the AbzAs media.