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.
A French court began hearing a lawsuit by Azerbaijan's government against two French broadcast journalists it accuses of defamation, in a case described by a media watchdog as an attempt by Baku to "export its censorship to France."
A fire at a munitions depot in northern Azerbaijan has injured six people and forced the evacuation of several areas around the military installation after a series of explosions.
Azerbaijani authorities have sent the director of the independent Turan news agency to nearly three months of detention pending trial on tax-evasion and abuse-of-power charges.
The head of Azerbaijan's Turan news agency says the authorities have frozen all of the outlet's bank accounts amid a criminal tax probe that rights groups call part of a broader crackdown on independent media and critical voices.
Tax officials have raided the office of Azerbaijan's Turan news agency in Baku.
A former top officer of Azerbaijan's counterintelligence service, Colonel Miraziz Asgarov, has been sentenced to four years in jail on corruption charges.
Russian, Kazakh, and Iranian naval vessels are in Baku ahead of a four-nation "competition" that is to be held off Azerbaijan's coast in the Caspian Sea from August 1-11.
A leading opposition politician in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to over three years in prison.
A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced Russian-Israeli blogger Aleksandr Lapshin to three years in jail, after convicting him on a charge of violating the country's territorial integrity.
An Azerbaijani prosecutor has asked a court in Baku to sentence Russian-Israeli blogger Aleksandr Lapshin, who is charged with calling for the violation of the country's territorial integrity, to 6 1/2 years in prison.
An Azerbaijani court has started preliminary hearings in the high-profile trial of Russian-Israeli citizen Aleksandr Lapshin, a blogger charged with calling for the country's territorial integrity to be violated.
An activist of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party (AXCP) has been sentenced to four years in prison after a trial that he said was politically motivated.
A lawyer for Azerbaijani journalist Nicat Amiraslanov says he believes his client was tortured in custody and that, as a result, he has lost many or all of his teeth.
Dozens of people have demonstrated in the Georgian capital to protest the alleged abduction and forcible return of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Afqan Muxtarli to Baku.
An Azerbaijani journalist says he has been forcefully returned from Georgia to Azerbaijan, where he says he is accused of illegally crossing state borders and of smuggling money, according to his attorney.
Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party (AXCP) says its deputy chief has been detained.
A court in Azerbaijan has ordered journalist Nicat Amiraslanov to spend 30 days in jail after finding him guilty of resisting police.
A court in Azerbaijan has ordered human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus to be returned to the country by force from the Netherlands to participate in new hearings in their politically charged case.
Azerbaijani officials and legislators on May 16 decried a decision by Russia's Supreme Court to shut down a group representing more than 2 million Azerbaijanis living in Russia.
The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan says it has destroyed an Armenian air defense missile system in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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