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.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has dismissed criticism of his country's rights records saying that freedom of the press and other human rights are "guaranteed" in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani police have identified a man who died on January 8 after setting himself on fire and denied speculation that his self-immolation was linked to the razing of homes in the capital, Baku.
Two activists with the NIDA youth organization who have been labelled as political prisoners have been released from custody in Azerbaijan under a presidential pardon.
Twelve employees of RFE/RL's Baku bureau have been forcibly detained by the Azerbaijani authorities for questioning, with more ordered to appear for questioning on December 29 or face similar detentions.
RFE/RL employees in the Azerbaijani capital Baku say they are being harassed by state prosecutors one day after their bureau was ransacked and ordered closed by investigators.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees all U.S. civilian international broadcasting, has condemned a raid on the Baku bureau of RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service.
Azerbaijani opposition activists and their supporters urged the government to release political prisoners and end repression at a rally in Baku.
Award-winning Azerbaijani investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, who hosts a daily program for RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, has been held in pretrial detention in Baku since December 5 after being accused of encouraging a man to commit suicide -- charges that have been broadly condemned as a flagrant attempt to silence her critical voice.
A well-known Azerbaijani lawyer says he could be disbarred for defending prominent human rights activists and oppositionists.
A lawyer for Leyla Yunus says the jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist can barely walk and has trouble breathing.
Jailed Azerbaijani activist Leyla Yunus has written a letter describing being harrassed by a group of young men who entered her Baku cell without explanation.
A court in Baku has ordered that an investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, Khadija Ismayilova, be held in pretrial detention for two months.
RFE/RL correspondent Turkhan Karimov was briefly detained and questioned by police in Baku, and warned "not to be critical of the government."
A human rights lawyer activist Elcin (read: Elchin) Namazov has been sentenced to 15 days in jail in Azerbaijan.
A former Azerbaijani deputy defense minister, Mehman Salimov, has been arrested on corruption charges.
A lawyer for jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus says her health has deteriorated drastically.
A well-known Azerbaijani blogger has been questioned by police after being prohibited from leaving the country.
Thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in Baku to protest against the Azerbaijani government and demand the release of "political prisoners."
A second lawyer has been barred from defending jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus.
A court in Baku has sentenced a journalist to 25 days in detention on charges of using vulgar words in public.
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