Anar Mammadli (full name Mammadli Anar Asaf oglu - born 1978 in Yevlakh) city, Azerbaijan Republic.He is a prominent human rights activist in Azerbaijan. Anar Mammadli is active in observing and monitoring elections, and repeatedly criticized the conduct of elections by the authorities in Azerbaijan. On 16 December 2013, Mammadli was arrested and jailed, following outspoken criticism of presidential elections in October 2013. In spite of international protests, A. Mammadli was sentenced to more than 5 years in jail, in May 2014. On 29 September 2014, while still in detention, Mammadli was awarded the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which honours "outstanding" action in defence of human rights.
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1978 (age 47)
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