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.
Tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan have escalated recently over issues including Azerbaijani accusations that Iran plotted terrorist attacks in Baku.
The Azerbaijani prosecutor-general's spokesman has said that a probe was launched into the alleged poisoning of the country's late president, Abulfaz Elcibey.
A court in Azerbaijan has reduced the jail sentence against the local correspondent of an Iranian television channel.
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku.
Azerbaijan's first head of state, Ayaz Mutalibov, has returned to Baku after two decades of exile in Russia.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree pardoning 66 prisoners, including nine men regarded by rights activists and the opposition as political prisoners.
The chief editor of the Baku-based "Tolisi sado" (The Voice of Talysh) independent newspaper has been arrested for alleged illegal drugs possession.
An Azerbaijani pro-democracy photographer and blogger has been released a day after his arrest -- but with the charges against him increased.
Police in Azerbaijan have detained a pro-democracy photographer and blogger on charges of "hooliganism."
Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, have broken up an unsanctioned opposition protest and arrested the co-chairman and several other activists of the opposition Republican Alternative (REAL) alliance.
A court in the Azerbaijani capital Baku has sentenced a local journalist working for an Iranian television channel to two years in jail for illegal drugs possession.
Azerbaijani authorities have released a prominent youth activist nine months before the end of his jail term.
Azerbaijan's government says it is launching a program to pay compensation to depositors in the Soviet-era Azerbaijan Savings Bank, which collapsed in the early 1990s during the breakup of the former U.S.S.R.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital have detained dozens of demonstrators amid scuffles at an opposition protest calling for greater media freedom in authoritarian-ruled Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani opposition parties have held an unsanctioned demonstration in the capital to highlight rights abuses, and reports say a number of demonstrators were beaten and arrested.
Elnur Mecidli, a member of the Azerbaijani opposition People’s Front party says that his request for early release was approved by a Baku court and he was released on parole on May 16.
Azerbaijani opposition parties have held an unsanctioned demonstration in Baku to demand that authorities permit them to hold public gatherings in the center of the capital.
Several thousand supporters of the political opposition in Azerbaijan have staged a rally in Baku to demand freedom for political prisoners and the resignation of President Ilham Aliyev.
Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR has condemned the beating of an award-winning journalist but accused him of provoking the violence.
Azerbaijan's security forces say they have killed the head of a group that Baku alleges is linked to Al-Qaeda, and have arrested 19 of his supporters.
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