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 court in Baku has ordered that a member of the Nida citizens' movement be held for up to three-months in pretrial detention.
Two activists, one an employee of the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute (NDI), have been detained by plainclothes police in Azerbaijan.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to halt a media crackdown.
A court in Baku has sentenced an Azerbaijani journalist to nine years in prison on bribery-related charges.
Azerbaijan says one of its soldiers has been shot dead near the border of its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Police have used rubber bullets, water hoses, and tear gas against demonstrators in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
Three student opposition activists have been detained in Azerbaijan ahead of a planned protest on March 10.
The wife of Azerbaijani opposition activist Mahir Bayramli says he has been sentenced to five days in prison.
Azerbaijani officials say an army conscript has died during military maneuvers in the country’s mountainous northwestern, becoming the third recruit to die in a week.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has fired the governor of a region that was hit by riots last month.
A pro-government party in Azerbaijan has offered a reward to anyone who cuts off the ear of a controversial novelist.
Protesters in western Azerbaijan have burned books by a prominent novelist, calling him "a traitor of the Azeri nation."
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stripped a prominent novelist of the title of "People's Writer," as well as his presidentially awarded pension.
The U.S. Embassy in Baku is expressing concern over the arrest of two opposition leaders in Azerbaijan.
Six residents of the village of Hacihasanli in Azerbaijan's Ismayilli district have been arrested in connection with last month's mass protests.
Two opposition leaders in Azerbaijan have been charged with organizing of mass disorders.
An accomplished author in Azerbaijan has raised a storm of criticism with a new novel that casts the country's traditional rival, Armenia, in a sympathetic light.
Three people who were involved in a January 26 protest in the Azerbaijan capital, Baku, have been given jail sentences.
Hundreds of people have demonstrated in Azerbaijan's capital to express solidarity with recent protests in the central town of Ismayilli.
Police in the central Azerbaijani town of Ismayilli have broken up renewed protests that raged through the streets there.
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