Vafa Naghi

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Feminist activist expelled from municipal council in Azerbaijan

by OC Media

•4 min read

Feminist activist Vafa Naghi, elected in Azerbaijan’s recent municipal elections, was expelled from her position in the municipal council for missing several council meetings. Naghi has said she was expelled because she was exposing corruption. Vafa Naghi was elected in December to the municipal council of the village of Khol Garagashli in southern Azerbaijan’s Neftchala District. Since her election, she has reported on local corruption using social media — and has claimed in the past that co

Personal photos of municipality member Vafa Naghi hung in the village of Khol Garagashli, with the caption ‘Lady Gaga’. Photo: Vafa Naghi.

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Azerbaijani feminist local councillor ‘publicly shamed’ after reporting on corruption

by OC Media

•4 min read

A feminist activist elected in Azerbaijan’s recent municipal elections has claimed that the chair of her municipality ordered her private photos be hung throughout the village in an attempt to discredit her. Vafa Naghi was elected in December to the municipality — the local self-government body — of Khol Garagashli in southern Azerbaijan’s Neftchala District. On Friday, Naghi protested in front of the Interior Ministry in Baku against what she said was the impunity of the ‘corrupt’ chair of

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Voice | ‘I did all these things so that the women would not lose hope’

by Kamran Mahmudov

•5 min read

Vafa Naghi is 36-years-old former journalist and graduate of Istanbul’s Sabahattin Zaim University. She could have had a bright career in Baku or abroad. But after graduation, she moved back to Kholgaragashli, the village of her birth, to start a small sewing workshop to help the local women find jobs and their independence. After submitting this piece, she was elected to the municipal council. ‘When I was in the fourth year [of university], my grandmother died and after many years away I h