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.
Police have detained dozens of opposition activists before and during a protest in the Azerbaijani capital on October 19.
Authorities prevented protesters from gathering for an authorized rally in support of the right to freedom of assembly in the Azerbaijani capital on October 8. Police began detaining people an hour before the event's scheduled 3:00 p.m. start in downtown Baku.
Azerbaijan's parliament has approved former presidential aide Ali Asadov as the new prime minister just hours after Norvuz Mammadov tendered his resignation.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
An Azerbaijani journalist, who was released from prison after serving a five-year term for hooliganism, a charge he has rejected as politically motivated, says the incarceration did not make him change his views.
Azerbaijan's State Maritime Agency says it has rescued nine people from an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel before it sunk into the Caspian Sea near the Azerbaijani port city of Lankaran.
Aydin Qurbanov, a man held in pretrial detention in Azerbaijan for nearly a year after mass disturbances in the city of Ganca, has died in custody from cancer.
European Council President Donald Tusk says the European Union believes the only way to resolve a decades-old dispute between Baku and Yerevan over Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh is through “a political settlement in accordance with international and principles.”
Police in Baku briefly detained the leader of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (AXCP), Ali Karimli, before letting him go amid allegations he was trying to undermine public stability.
A journalist in Azerbaijan is under pressure after filming and reporting on what she said appeared to be election fraud.
A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced an arsonist to life in prison for starting a fire at a state-run drug rehabilitation clinic that killed 25 people in March 2018.
Bayram Mammadov of the Azerbaijani opposition NIDA youth movement has been rearrested two weeks following his release as part of a mass amnesty announced by President Ilham Aliyev.
Fire broke out at a five-story shopping mall in Azerbaijan's capital. Two helicopters aided firefighters in combating the blaze in the upper floors of the Diglas Trade Center in Baku's eastern Nizami district.
An RFE/RL correspondent reports from the scene that firefighters are still trying to extinguish the blaze.
A court in Azerbaijan has handed a suspended prison sentence to independent journalist Anar Mammadov.
The European Union has welcomed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s decision to pardon jailed rights activists and political opponents as part of a broader amnesty and said it expects similar moves to follow.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned more than 400 people convicted of crimes in the country, including several members of the opposition considered to be political prisoners by international rights organizations.
Marches for gender equality were held around the world to mark International Women's Day. In Baku, police forcefully stopped one rally before it could get started.
Azerbaijani anti-corruption blogger Mehman Huseynov was released from prison on March 2 after serving a two-year prison sentence in a case that sparked international outrage and critics said was politically motivated.
The Azerbaijani anti-corruption blogger Mehman Huseynov is free after fully serving a two-year prison sentence in a case that sparked international outrage and critics said was politically motivated.
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