UN rapporteur: Free climate activist ahead of COP29

GENEVA — The UN rapporteur on environmental defenders on Thursday urged Azerbaijan to free Anar Mammadli, saying his detention seemed aimed at silencing

climate advocates ahead of November’s COP29 summit.

Mammadli risks up to eight years behind bars on smuggling charges which human rights groups claim are bogus. His ongoing detention on charges subject only to a preliminary investigation “therefore appears grossly unreasonable and disproportionate”. Mammadli’s health has deteriorated in detention and served to “further penalise” him, Forst said, calling for his immediate release and for the charges to be “immediately dropped”.

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