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 Azerbaijan has sentenced six people to prison over an apartment-tower fire that killed 15 people in 2015.
A court in Baku has sentenced several opposition figures to lengthy prison terms after convicting them of publicly calling for the overthrow of the government and of inciting ethnic, religious, and social hatred.
A prominent Azerbaijani blogger who crusades against corruption says he was beaten by police after being forcibly detained on a central Baku street on January 9.
Divers searching for nine Azerbaijani oil workers missing after the partial collapse of a Caspian Sea oil platform have found a cabin used by workers during resting shifts.
Azerbaijan's state oil company, SOCAR, says one oil worker has died and nine others are missing after part of an offshore platform fell into the Caspian Sea early on December 15.
A court in Azerbaijan has convicted opposition activist Bayram Mammadov of drug trafficking and sentenced him to 10 years in prison despite his claim that he was tortured into confessing.
Azerbaijan has tightened restrictions on the transfer of foreign currency abroad as of December 8.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has rejected allegations that his government has imposed restrictions on the freedom of the press.
Azerbaijan's patriarchal society can place enormous pressure on women to deliver boys, contributing to sex-selective abortions.
An appellate court in Azerbaijan has rejected an appeal by investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who had asked for the removal from her record of charges for illegal entrepreneurship.
Hundreds of antigovernment protesters are holding a rally in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, ahead of a key referendum.
An Azerbaijani author who has endured years of intimidation after writing about massacres of ethnic Armenians in his country was summoned by the Prosecutor-General's Office in Baku on September 6.
Azerbaijan has shortened a suspended sentence that was handed down to RFE/RL journalist Khadija Ismayilova.
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry and Prosecutor-General's Office said on July 27 that a deadly explosion in a munitions plant involved a stockpile of old ammunition that was being prepared for disposal.
Authorities in Azerbaijan say two people were killed by an explosion at a munitions factory on July 26 in the town of Shirvan, about 100 kilometers from the capital, Baku.
A private Azerbaijani television station has been taken off the air and accused of damaging Baku's "strategic" links with Turkey after announcing it would broadcast an interview with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
A top Azerbaijani soccer player has been sentenced to four years in jail in connection with the high-profile beating death of a journalist.
Investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova says the Azerbaijani government decided to release her from prison because her detention had become an embarrassment and had failed to frighten other reporters from pursuing stories about high-level corruption.
An Azerbaijani opposition leader who was freed from jail on a presidential clemency in March has not been allowed to leave Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijani parliament has approved a proposal to grant amnesty to thousands of prisoners.
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