Azerbaijani civil society activist Anar Mammadli is the winner of the 2014 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. Mammadli, has actively defended the right to free elections and is the founder of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre in Azerbaijan. He was arrested in December 2013 on charges of tax evasion and illegal business and in the spring of this year was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison.
