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Vicious oppression of independent civil society and endemic official corruption are a fact of life for many Azerbaijanis. So how can the country remain a member of EITI, a landmark transparency scheme founded on the principle of the freedom of civil society to hold government to account?

In December 2013 Global Witness published Azerbaijan Anonymous in which we called for the release of information concerning who the real owners are of companies involved in the extraction and trading of oil that belongs to the Azerbaijani people, and how these companies got access to these deals.