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.
Hundreds of antigovernment protesters are holding a rally in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, ahead of a key referendum.
An Azerbaijani author who has endured years of intimidation after writing about massacres of ethnic Armenians in his country was summoned by the Prosecutor-General's Office in Baku on September 6.
Azerbaijan has shortened a suspended sentence that was handed down to RFE/RL journalist Khadija Ismayilova.
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry and Prosecutor-General's Office said on July 27 that a deadly explosion in a munitions plant involved a stockpile of old ammunition that was being prepared for disposal.
Authorities in Azerbaijan say two people were killed by an explosion at a munitions factory on July 26 in the town of Shirvan, about 100 kilometers from the capital, Baku.
A private Azerbaijani television station has been taken off the air and accused of damaging Baku's "strategic" links with Turkey after announcing it would broadcast an interview with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
A top Azerbaijani soccer player has been sentenced to four years in jail in connection with the high-profile beating death of a journalist.
Investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova says the Azerbaijani government decided to release her from prison because her detention had become an embarrassment and had failed to frighten other reporters from pursuing stories about high-level corruption.
An Azerbaijani opposition leader who was freed from jail on a presidential clemency in March has not been allowed to leave Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijani parliament has approved a proposal to grant amnesty to thousands of prisoners.
A court in Baku has charged a member of the Azerbaijani civic youth movement N!DA with drug possession.
Two of Azerbaijan's most prominent human rights defenders, who supporters say have been persecuted and jailed at home for their activist work, have arrived in the Netherlands after the authorities in Baku granted them permission to leave.
Azerbaijan has accused Armenian-backed separatists in its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of violating a cease-fire agreed between the two sides.
Separatist forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh launched a counteroffensive and said they regained strategic high ground, as heavy fighting continued to rage between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces.
Intense fighting has been reported in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, with both sides reporting heavy casualties. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which has been mediating the conflict, expressed "grave concern" about developments.
In Azerbaijan, five men have been jailed for up to 13 years in the beating death of a journalist who had criticized a national soccer star.
International organizations have welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan to release jailed human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev after nearly a year in prison.
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has commuted a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence against prominent human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev, paving the way for his release after nearly a year in prison.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned 148 people serving jail terms.
A Baku court has released a prominent Azerbaijani journalist who was jailed on charges of high treason in December.
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