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 Baku court resumed the trial of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on August 18, while her mother and sister doubted the court's impartiality.
A Baku court has sentenced Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus to 8 1/2 years in prison and sentenced her severely ailing husband Arif to seven years.
Police in Azerbaijan have arrested a well-known player of the Qabala FK soccer club, Cavid Huseynov, in a case related to the beating of a journalist to death.
A Baku court has pressed ahead with the trial of Khadija Ismayilova, shrugging off the absence of the investigative journalist's lawyers and her call for a slower pace.
The European Union and several human rights groups have called on authorities in Azerbaijan to conduct a full and transparent investigation into the death of journalist Rasim Aliyev.
The trial of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova has continued in Baku with testimony from the man the authorities say she pushed to attempt suicide.
Police in Azerbaijan have detained several men suspected of severely beating a journalist who later died in hospital.
An Azerbaijani journalist who was allegedly attacked and beaten by supporters of a local soccer player has died of his injuries.
Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who reported extensively on corruption in Azerbaijan, goes on trial today, facing charges of embezzlement, tax evasion, and abuse of power.
Azerbaijan's state prosecutor has asked a court in Baku to sentence human rights defender Leyla Yunus to 11 years in prison.
A high-ranking member of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party has been sent to jail.
A brother-in-law of an outspoken Azerbaijani activist-in-exile has been arrested on drugs-related charges.
A court in Baku has begun the trial of jailed human rights advocates, Leyla and Arif Yunus, in a case widely seen as politically motivated.
Jailed Azerbaijani human rights advocates Leyla and Arif Yunus will go on trial on July 27, a judge said at a preliminary hearing nearly a year after their arrest on what the ailing couple and their supporters say are politically motivated charges.
A privately run, pro-government television station in Baku claims it was duped by a local man who "misrepresented himself as a foreigner" at the European Games in Azerbaijan this week in order to create a "provocation."
With the 2015 European Games opening today in Baku, many Azerbaijanis are suffering -- and increasingly out of pocket.
At least 15 people have been killed in a fire that that ripped through a 16-story apartment block in Azerbaijan's capital.
A court in Azerbaijan has prolonged the pretrial detention period for Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and contributor to RFE/RL who has been behind bars since December.
Khadija Ismayilova, a jailed Azerbaijani investigative journalist and contributor to RFE/RL, has won a prestigious media freedom award that commemorates slain Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
A prominent human rights lawyer in Azerbaijan, Intiqam Aliyev, has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison after a trial that he called politically motivated.
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