Despite near-total government control over the media, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has built a high-impact social-media presence in Azerbaijan and a reputation as a leading source of independent news.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree announcing an early presidential election in the country on February 7.
Independent Azerbaijani journalist Nargiz Absalamova has been ordered in detention for three months -- the latest journalist from the independent Abzas Media to be detained in a smuggling case rights groups say is a part of a crackdown on the outlet's "pioneering journalism" to root out corruption.
Another journalist from the independent Abzas Media news website in Azerbaijan has been detained in a smuggling case that the outlet rejects as trumped up, the latest in a series of arrests in what rights groups say is a crackdown on the outlet's "pioneering journalism" to root out corruption.
Aziz Orucov, the executive director of Azerbajian's Kanal 13 Internet TV station, was detained late on November 27 and his home and office were searched by the police.
Azerbaijan has offered to hold direction negotiations with Armenia on a peace treaty at a mutually acceptable venue, including along the state border between the two countries.
Azerbaijan's State Security Service (DTX) said on November 20 that it detained another ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, Rashid Beglarian, accusing him of atrocities against Azerbaijani civilians during the war over the then-breakaway region in 1992.
A second journalist from the independent Abzas Media news website has been detained by Azerbaijani authorities in as many days in what rights groups say are retaliatory moves for the outlet's "pioneering journalism" to root out corruption.
The International Court of Justice has published a preliminary order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure the safety of people who want to return to Nagorno-Karabakh following the Azerbaijani military's lightning offensive in September that resulted in Baku regaining control of the disputed territory.
Washington has reaffirmed its support for peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia after Baku pulled out of an upcoming U.S.-hosted meeting citing allegedly “biased” remarks by a U.S. State Department official.
Azerbaijan has marked the third anniversary of its victory in the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh, when Azerbaijani forces took control over a chunk of the breakaway region mostly populated by Armenians and seven adjacent districts that had been under ethnic Armenian separatists’ control.
BAKU -- Jailed Azerbaijani activist Baxtiyar Haciyev has been additionally charged with evading taxes, social security contributions, and health insurance fees, Haciyev's lawyer, Elcin Sadyqov, said on November 7.
A military court in Baku on November 7 sentenced Vagif Khachatrian, an ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, to 15 years in prison after finding him guilty of genocide and the forced deportation of civilians, charges he vehemently denies.
A meeting in Brussels between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and European Council President Charles Michel, scheduled for the end of the month, has been canceled.
Nuraddin Guliyev, a 94-year-old Azerbaijani farmer, dreams of returning to his native village of Narinclar in Nagorno-Karabakh three decades after he was forced to leave. Azerbaijan recaptured the breakaway region in September and more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled from the disputed territory.
Azerbaijan said it had begun joint military exercises with its ally Turkey near the border with Armenia as foreign ministers from the three countries are meeting their Iranian and Russian counterparts in Tehran to discuss a number of issues, including the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is ready to sign a peace deal with Azerbaijan by the end of the year based on the principles outlined in meetings with European mediators, he said on October 17.
A court in Baku on October 17 sentenced Orxan Baxisli, an activist with the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (AXCP), to 20 days in jail after finding him guilty of minor hooliganism.
Vagif Khachatrian, an ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh accused of alleged genocide and the forced deportation of civilians, pleaded not guilty to all charges as a military court in Baku started his trial on October 17.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has raised his country's flag in the main city of the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, the city known as Xankendi to Azeris and Stepanakert to the territory's ethnic Armenians.
A military court in Baku held a preliminary hearing on October 13 into the case against Vagif Khachatrian, an ethnic Armenian from Karabakh accused of alleged genocide and the forced deportation of civilians.
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