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.
Azerbaijan's prominent human rights activist, Leyla Yunus, has been questioned by investigators and her Baku-based Peace and Democracy Institute offices are being searched.
A prominent Azerbaijani rights activist is the target of government harassment in the latest sign of a creeping crackdown that has alarmed Western governments and threatens to further isolate Baku.
Authorities in Azerbaijan have detained the country's most prominent human rights activist, Leyla Yunus, and her husband, Arif Yunus, at Baku airport as they prepared to travel to Doha.
The head of an election watchdog in Azerbaijan, Anar Mammadli and his two associates went on trial on April 28.
The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights has harshly criticized Azerbaijani authorities over deteriorating human rights and basic freedoms in the country.
In Azerbaijan, sentences have been handed down to two leading opposition figures in a high-profile mass-disorder case.
A well-known activist from Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party (AXCP) is missing.
An investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service says she has been summoned for questioning in an investigation into the leaking of state secrets.
About 1,000 people have gathered in downtown Baku to protest against the government's offer of compensation for homes due to be demolished as part of an urban renewal plan in the Azerbaijani capital.
Two people have been killed in what is believed to have been a gas explosion in Baku.
A 41-year-old man has been hospitalized in grave condition after setting himself on fire in Azerbaijan's Naxcivan Autonomous Republic.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has described the political opposition in his country as "venal groups who sold their conscience for money from abroad."
A co-chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Minsk Group trying to mediate a peace in the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has said he sees progress in negotiations.
Azerbaijani parliament speaker Oqtay Asadov has called on religious clerics in the country to perform their prayers in Azeri, not in Arabic.
Another act of self-immolation in Azerbaijan -- the fourth in a month -- has left a 21-year-old woman in grave condition.
A veteran of the 1990s Karabakh war in Azerbaijan has reportedly set himself alight in protest, following the death weeks ago of another veteran fighting perceived injustice.
A young opposition activist and blogger in Azerbaijan has been given three-months' pretrial detention on drugs charges.
An Azeri LGBT activist has apparently committed suicide.
A political activist and political adviser to Azerbaijan's opposition Musavat party has been sentenced to six years in prison for "hooliganism."
Author Rafiq Tagi, who also worked as a freelance reporter for RFE/RL, was stabbed by an unknown assailant in November 2011, but his condition had improved before his sudden death in his hospital bed.
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