Azerbaijan

Executive summary

The Cuban medical mission to Azerbaijan began on 13 July 2020 under the Henry Reeve Contingent, deploying 235 professionals across two brigades to Baku amid the Covid-19 pandemic; the mission concluded on 30 September 2021 and remains inactive despite a 2023 Memorandum of Understanding. No independent verification of figures exists, though brigade composition is documented in detail. No labour rights violations—movement restrictions, passport retention, or forced repatriations—are formally documented, though brigade personnel were reportedly deployed near the active Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone without adequate security guarantees. Political obligations are confirmed. Sent to heal, yet stationed beside gunfire—their safety never guaranteed.

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Research profile