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.
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry has said that one of its soldiers was killed in a late-morning incident near the border with arch-foe Armenia.
Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofiq Yaqublu, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison earlier this month, has been transferred to house arrest after needing hospitalization due to health complications arising from a hunger strike he was on.
A group uniting leading human rights defenders in Azerbaijan is appealing to authorities to release hunger-striking opposition politician Tofiq Yaqublu, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison on hooliganism charges that he and supporters call "bogus."
Police in Baku have detained dozens of demonstrators demanding the immediate release of hunger-striking Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofiq Yaqublu, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison on hooliganism charges which he and his supporters call "bogus."
A lawyer for hunger-striking Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofiq Yaqublu said after a jail visit on September 7 that the 59-year-old prisoner looks unwell and that his captors are pressuring him to confess to nonexistent psychological problems to explain his protest.
An opposition politician in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to more than four years in prison on a hooliganism charge which he and his supporters call "bogus."
An opposition politician in Azerbaijan who is on trial on what he and his supporters call bogus charges has launched a hunger strike after the judge deprived him of his last statement at the process.
An activist of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party (AXCP) has been released from prison after completing a four-year sentence on charges he claimed were politically motivated.
Mammad Ibrahim, an opposition politician in Azerbaijan, has been sent to pretrial detention over his participation in an unsanctioned rally.
A top opposition figure in Azerbaijan has been arrested on charges of seeking to overthrow the government, which his party denies as politically motivated.
Villagers living on both sides of the northern border between Armenia and Azerbaijan say they've been targeted since deadly clashes broke out on July 12.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has replaced the long-time Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
The international community has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to de-escalate tensions after deadly border clashes.
Azerbaijani authorities have launched a criminal case against some participants of a large rally supporting the South Caucasus nation's armed forces.
Dozens of Azerbaijani citizens have been arrested in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan after hundreds of Azerbaijani men stuck near the Russian-Azerbaijani border clashed with local police.
A resident of the Azerbaijani capital is alleging police brutality while he was in custody following a local backlash to a raid enforcing coronavirus regulations.
Dozens of police officers raided a Baku neighborhood on June 8 and detained several people in an early morning operation that one rights activist described as a "revenge operation."
The son of Azerbaijan's foreign minister bought New York real estate worth more than $4.2 million in 2015. The details are contained in documents at the New York City finance department's office of the city register. They also show that the properties were purchased without a mortgage. The deals have raised questions about how the purchases were financed.
Police in the southeatern Azerbaijani city of Lankaran have jailed an activist for "disobeying the police," a charge his relatives are calling politically motivated.
Part of Azerbaijan's largest construction-supplies market was gutted by flames after a fire tore through the EuroHome building materials complex in the country's capital, Baku. It took some 400 firefighters more than two hours to extinguish the flames in the early hours of May 12. No injuries were reported and officials are investigating the cause of the fire. The same market was hit by a blaze in December 2019 which officials blamed on poor fire-safety standards.
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