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.
Security personnel from Azerbaijan's SOCAR state energy company have assaulted an award-winning investigative journalist, leaving him hospitalized.
Opposition supporters in Azerbaijan have staged an antigovernment rally in Baku, calling for reforms, and also demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian President Ilham Aliyev.
At least one man has been reported killed and several others were reported wounded during shoot-outs between security forces and an armed group in Azerbaijan.
A court in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, has rejected an appeal by a former opposition parliament candidate and social-media activist for early release from a prison sentence for evasion of military service.
The lead singer of an Azerbaijani rock band jailed for insulting the mother of President Ilham Aliyev has been released after 10 days in custody.
The Baku appeals court has upheld the jail sentences for the front man of the popular band Bulistan and two others.
Eyewitnesses in Azerbaijan say three protesters were detained and badly beaten by police during a sanctioned opposition protest on the outskirts of Baku.
Baku prosecutors say they have opened an investigation after a sexually explicit video was posted on the Internet purportedly involving RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service correspondent Khadija Ismayilova.
The office of Azerbaijan's president vows to do "everything possible" to catch those responsible for distributing a sexually explicit video in a bid to blackmail RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service correspondent Khadija Ismayilova.
The visiting foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran have held talks with their Azerbaijani counterpart on a broad range of issues that include disputed Nagorno-Karabakh and measures that could boost mutual ties.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakshvili has announced that Georgia and neighboring Azerbaijan will make a joint bid to host the European football championship finals in 2020.
The governor of Azerbaijan's northeastern district of Quba has been removed from his post -- one day after rioting in the city of Quba left buildings damaged and led authorities to call in security reinforcements.
The streets of Azerbaijan’s northeastern city of Quba appeared calm after security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a protest rally there.
Azerbaijani state television's website has been vandalized in a hacking attack, apparently by hackers based in neighboring Iran.
An activist of Azerbaijan's Musavat (Equality) opposition party has been freed from prison after he was granted an early release.
A court in the Azerbaijani capital Baku has ruled that a journalist who works for an Iranian television broadcaster will remain in pre-trial detention center as a drugs investigation continues.
Iran's Fars news agency says security forces in Azerbaijan have arrested and jailed its correspondent in Baku.
Human Rights Watch has criticized Azerbaijan for what it calls "the forcible eviction of residents to demolish the last standing building in the neighborhood of the capital, Baku, where the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is to be held."
Azerbaijan has denied Iranian claims that Baku has been collaborating with Israel's spy services and helping assassins who killed Iranian nuclear scientists.
Law enforcement officials in Azerbaijan have ruled that medical personnel were not to blame for the death of a prominent writer being treated in a Baku hospital.
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