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.
Jailed Azerbaijani activist Baxtiyar Haciyev’s has launched a new hunger strike to protest against the extension of his pretrial detention over charges of hooliganism and contempt of court.
Azerbaijan launched an assault on Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19. For Azerbaijani parents Aybeniz and Shiraslan Hasanov, the attack meant losing another son, Shamil, during fighting in the region. The couple also lost their youngest son, Famil, during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.
A court in Baku on October 5 sentenced Kenan Zeynalov, a bodyguard of opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (AXCP) leader Ali Karimli, to 25 days in jail after finding him guilty of "disobeying police orders."
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said he plans to attend European Union talks scheduled for October 5 in Granada, Spain, despite reports that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has decided not to take part in the meeting where discussions over a peace deal were expected.
Authorities in Azerbaijan reportedly have arrested more former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh after Baku reclaimed control of the ethnic Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month.
Azerbaijan continues to arrest and charge Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenian leadership following Baku's takeover of the region. Baku has said it plans to give amnesty to Armenian fighters but is looking to arrest people it claims committed "war crimes."
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev hopes that a meeting later this week in Granada, Spain, will give impetus to the development of a peace agenda for Nagorno-Karabakh amid claims of continued violence in the breakaway region.
Armenia says more than 100,000 people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh since Azerbaijan's seizure of that breakaway territory a little over a week ago, while Yerevan has appealed to a UN court to stop Baku from allegedly targeting ethnic Armenians there.
The United Nations will send a mission to Nagorno-Karabakh this weekend, a UN spokesman said after Azerbaijan invited UN agencies to visit the region to monitor the situation there as an exodus of ethnic Armenians continued on September 29.
Thousands more people poured into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh overnight -- an exodus prompted by a lightning Azerbaijani offensive that gave Baku total control over the ethnic-Armenian populated breakaway region amid growing fears of a major humanitarian crisis.
Azerbaijan's State Border Service (DSX) said on September 27 that it has detained billionaire Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent, who served as prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The U.S. State Department says it will work with allies and partners on an international monitoring mission after nearly half the population of Nagorno-Karabakh fled following an offensive by Azerbaijan that gave Baku complete control of the breakaway region.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh are clogging roads leading to Armenia, where unrest over a bruising defeat to Azerbaijan in the breakaway region last week is growing, with dozens of protesters detained in the capital, Yerevan.
An adviser to the breakaway leadership in Nagorno-Karabakh thrashed by a lightning Azerbaijani offensive this week says virtually all of the territory's ethnic Armenians will leave for Armenia in a bitter exodus from "our historic lands."
Hundreds of demonstrators called for the embattled Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to be ousted for what they call inadequate government support for ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani territory that has a large ethnic Armenian population.
A Baku court ruled on September 21 to arrest a coordinator of Azerbaijan's Alternative Confederation of Trade Unions, Afiaddin Mammadov, and placed him to pretrial detention for two months.
More than 80 people have been detained as anti-government protests continued in the Armenian capital on September 22.
Representatives of Azerbaijan and the ethnic Armenian leadership of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh have begun "reintegration" talks in the western Azerbaijani city of Yevlax on September 21.
Azerbaijan on September 19 said it had launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in Nagorno-Karabakh following recent clashes and a monthslong blockade. The de facto human rights ombudsman in the ethnic Armenian-controlled Azerbaijani region said that two civilians had been killed and 23 wounded.
After weeks of bloody clashes and a blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan said it had launched an "anti-terrorist operation," a major escalation in hostilities with Armenia as the breakaway region teeters on the brink of a humanitarian crisis after being blockaded for more than eight months.
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