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 activists say they have raised 11,600 manats ($14,770) to pay fines for protesters who have been fined hundreds of dollars under a new law on mass gatherings.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital have clashed with shopkeepers blocking a road to protest rent increases by the managers of the country's largest shopping center, Bina.
Twenty-one men have become the first in Azerbaijan to be penalized under a new, tougher law on mass gatherings that took effect on January 1.
Hundreds of people have been demonstrating on Fountains Square in the center of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to raise awareness about the deaths of young army conscripts.
Activists in Azerbaijan are calling for a mass gathering on Baku's Fountains Square on January 12 to raise awareness about the deaths of young conscripts in the Azerbaijani army.
A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced two participants in violent protests to four and five years in jail.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry says an agreement with Russia to use a sophisticated radar system has expired and Moscow has made clear it is not interested in renewing the deal.
Police in Baku have forcibly dispersed an unsanctioned rally by the Public Chamber coalition of opposition parties and movements.
Four men have been sentenced for terrorism and high treason in Baku.
Police in Azerbaijan have arrested around 30 opposition activists who tried to stage a protest in Baku demanding the president's resignation and the dissolution of parliament.
Azerbaijan's parliament has adopted amendments to the law on public gatherings which significantly increase fines for illegal demonstrations.
Azerbaijani police have prevented opposition and independent youth groups from staging a protest rally in Baku, arresting dozens of people.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, made several arrests and forcibly dispersed dozens of activists gathered outside the Ministry of Education to demand that a ban on Islamic head scarves in school be rescinded.
An Azerbaijani judge has ordered that opposition youth activist Zaur Qurbanli be held for 15 days of pretrial detention for an alleged drug-related crime.
Azerbaijan's prosecutor-general is investigating allegations lawmaker Gular Ahmedova requested a bribe in exchange for securing a seat in parliament for academic Elsad Abdullayev.
Azerbaijani authorities have launched a probe into a fire that killed at least two people and severely injured another two at a plant in the city of Sumqayit, some 30 kilometers north of Baku.
More than 140 people were taken to a hospital after inhaling smoke at a shopping center in Baku where a power generator caught fire.
Iran has released two Azerbaijani poets who were arrested in May for alleged espionage.
Armenian officials say they will send letters to states co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group to protest the pardoning by Azerbaijan of a convicted killer immediately after he was repatriated from Hungary.
Officials in Azerbaijan say at least six people have been killed in the collision of a passenger bus with a train in a suburb of the capital, Baku.
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