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.
The deputy chairman of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party, Fuad Qahramanli, has been arrested in Baku in connection with a deadly security operation in the city's suburbs last month.
Azerbaijani authorities have detained the former head of the country's biggest bank on suspicion of fraud and misappropriation of public funds.
Azerbaijani media report that one person has died and at least 30 workers are missing after a fire broke out on an oil rig in the Caspian Sea.
Although she's been in jail for a year, investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova continues to chronicle corruption and rights abuses in Azerbaijan -- from jail or the courtroom -- and vows not to relent.
Authorities in Azerbaijan say two police officers and four suspected militants were killed during a raid on what the Interior Ministry described as a "criminal gang" that was planning terrorist attacks in the country.
RFE/RL's correspondents report from Azerbaijan that a massive Internet outage affected daily life in the oil-rich former Soviet republic in the South Caucasus on November 16.
The European Union has welcomed the decision of a Baku court to release human rights activist Arif Yunus on health grounds, calling the ruling "a welcome and positive humanitarian gesture."
Azerbaijani rights defender Arif Yunus, whose case attracted worldwide attention when he and his wife were arrested in 2014 on suspicion of spying for Armenia, has been released from jail due to his health.
An Azerbaijani court is scheduled to resume hearings on November 5 into the appeal filed by jailed human rights activist Leyla Yunus and her husband, Arif Yunus.
Azerbaijan's election authorities say the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has won a majority in parliamentary elections, cementing President Ilham Aliyev's grip on power through a vote that was boycotted by Europe's largest monitoring agency and all of Azerbaijan’s established opposition parties.
A taxi driver in Azerbaijan's western city of Sumqayit has died after setting himself on fire to protest alleged "misconduct" by local traffic police.
An Armenian man has defected to archrival Azerbaijan in a case that is sure to rankle in Yerevan.
A Baku court has sentenced investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7 1/2 years in prison on charges considered by many to be retribution for her reports on corruption involving senior officials.
Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova delivered a scathing final statement in a Baku courtroom on August 31, calling Azerbaijan's government a "repression machine" and dismissing her trial as a "scam" aimed to silence her.
A well-known player from Azerbaijan’s Qabala FK soccer club, who is a suspect in a case related to the beating of a journalist to death, has been remanded in custody.
The trial of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan has been postponed until August 31.
Police clashed with residents in the Azerbaijani city of Mingachevir on August 22, a day after a young Azerbaijani man was found dead after being questioned by local police.
A state prosecutor in Azerbaijan has asked for a nine-year prison sentence for Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and contributor to RFE/RL.
Prosecutors in Azerbaijan wrapped up their case against investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on August 20 at a closed trial in Baku.
A Baku court resumed the trial of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on August 19.
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