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.
Jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus says she has been deprived of her lawyer.
The pretrial detention of prominent Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus has been extended.
The trial of an investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has been postponed till October 17.
Thousands of opposition supporters in Azerbaijan have attended an antigovernment rally in the capital, Baku, demanding the resignation of President Ilham Aliyev and an end to the repression of human rights defenders and civic activists.
An explosion in a store on the outskirts of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, killed at least one and injured four others on October 8.
Lawyers of Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus say that their client has been beaten in pretrial detention.
A sexually explicit video showing former activist Said Nuri has been posted on the Internet in what Nuri says is an attempt by the Azerbaijani authorities to discredit him.
An explosion has partially destroyed an apartment building in Azerbaijan, leaving at least three people missing.
The Council of Europe's human rights chief has harshly criticized Azerbaijani authorities over what he says is the deterioration of human rights and basic freedoms in the oil-producing Caspian Sea country.
A U.S. citizen of Azerbaijani origin, Said Nuri, has been barred from leaving Azerbaijan.
Police in Azerbaijan's Abseron district have detained a well-known opposition journalist named Seymur Hazi.
An Iranian military official said on August 27 that an alleged Israeli drone shot down close to the Natanz nuclear facility was launched from a former Soviet Republic to the north of Iran.
Transparency International’s office in Baku says it is being forced to suspend some of its projects in Azerbaijan because of problems receiving funds through its bank in Baku.
An Azerbaijani journalist and rights activist has been badly beaten by unknown assailants in the country's Naxcivan exclave.
An Azerbaijani court will hear the appeal of a young blogger given a five-year prison sentence in a case his supporters say is politically motivated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin got the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sit down together in Sochi on August 10 to ease tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh. But both South Caucasus countries are wary of what Moscow's intentions might be.
Another prominent human rights defender has been detained in Azerbaijan.
Days of sometimes fierce exchanges of gunfire have revived fears that the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh could once again explode. RFE/RL's Armenian and Azerbaijani services spoke to people caught in the middle of the fighting.
The husband of Azerbaijan's prominent human rights activist Leyla Yunus, Arif Yunus, has been arrested in Baku.
A cease-fire violation sparks more finger-pointing around Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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