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.
Authorities in Azerbaijan's southern district of Lankaran have arrested an adviser to the leader of opposition Musavat (Equality) party.
A district court in the district of Binaqadi in the Azerbaijani capital has sentenced investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 220 hours of community service after she refused to pay a fine after being picked up at an antigovernment demonstration.
Azerbaijani scholar Khalida Khalid and her driver have been released following weeks in Iranian custody after their detention at the home of an ethnic Azeri activist.
A court in Baku has charged a young Facebook activist with hooliganism over a controversial "Harlem Shake" video.
An RFE/RL correspondent has been detained in Azerbaijan while reporting on a land dispute protest by villagers in the Imisli district near the border with Iran.
Authorities in Azerbaijan's northeastern town of Xudat have sentenced four local residents to 10 days in jail for taking part in an unapproved protest.
Azerbaijan's parliament has approved a broad amnesty for around 9,000 inmates.
EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele says Azerbaijan must continue to meet its commitments on advancing democracy and human rights.
Baku is demanding an explanation for the arrest of two Azerbaijani citizens in Iran.
Elmar Mamadyarov has become Azerbaijan's first foreign minister to make an official visit to Israel.
Azerbaijan's foreign minister says he does not believe the recent call by a group of Iranian lawmakers for the annexation of part of Azerbaijan should be taken seriously.
Azerbaijan has suspended the operations of a university set up to promote democratic values.
Hundreds of workers building the Silk Road highway in Azerbaijan have held a protest near the southern city of Lankaran.
Azerbaijan says one of its army officers has been shot dead near the border of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
An activist with the opposition Azerbaijani Popular Front Party (AXCP) has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for taking part in an unapproved antigovernment protest in Baku.
A court in Baku has ordered that two members of the Nida citizens' movement be held for up to three months in pretrial detention.
The Iranian Embassy in Baku says Tehran has nothing to do with a new radio station broadcasting in the Talysh language from Azerbaijan's breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Police have arrested opposition activist Dasqin Malikov in the Azerbaijani city of Sumqayit, about 30 kilometers north from the capital, Baku.
Defense Ministry officials said that a sailor at a naval base in Baku was shot dead by another conscript.
The leader of the opposition Musavat Party branch in Azerbaijan's Naxcivan Autonomous Republic has been hospitalized after being attacked late on March 14.
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