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.
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.
An opposition figure in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to three years in jail.
Baku says that Azerbaijani human rights activists Leyla Yunus and her husband, Arif Yunus, are not permitted to travel abroad to receive medical treatment.
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has upheld the imprisonment of the Caucasus nation's noted lawyer Intiqam Aliyev.
A court in Azerbaijan's Naxcivan exclave has sentenced an opposition activist to eight years in jail.
Tear gas was used in a Baku courtroom to end emotional outbursts and physical attacks during the high-profile trial of the alleged beating death of an Azerbaijani sports journalist.
Azerbaijan is commemorating the victims of a totalitarian crackdown by Soviet troops on January 20, 1990, that dispersed a crowd of anti-Kremlin protesters in Baku.
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has offered to take the case of jailed Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to the European Court of Human Rights.
Azerbaijan’s parliament has approved a package of measures aimed at coping with an economic and financial crisis caused by plunging energy prices.
Security forces have dispersed a protest in Azerbaijan's northeastern Quba district, using water cannon and tear gas and detaining several people amid a national outbreak this week of unrest over worsening economic conditions.
An activist from Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party (AXCP) has been sentenced to seven days in prison.
Scores of people, including opposition activists, were detained in Azerbaijan on January 13 amid countrywide protests over worsening economic conditions in the oil-rich Caucasus state.
Azerbaijani authorities have withdrawn licenses from independent currency exchange booths operating across the country.
An activist from Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party (AXCP) has been detained in Baku.
Hundreds of protesters have rallied across Azerbaijan to protest against employment and price hikes.
The trial of five men accused of involvement in the killing of Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliyev is beginning in a Baku court.
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