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 Baku has ordered that an investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, Khadija Ismayilova, be held in pretrial detention for two months.
RFE/RL correspondent Turkhan Karimov was briefly detained and questioned by police in Baku, and warned "not to be critical of the government."
A human rights lawyer activist Elcin (read: Elchin) Namazov has been sentenced to 15 days in jail in Azerbaijan.
A former Azerbaijani deputy defense minister, Mehman Salimov, has been arrested on corruption charges.
A lawyer for jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus says her health has deteriorated drastically.
A well-known Azerbaijani blogger has been questioned by police after being prohibited from leaving the country.
Thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in Baku to protest against the Azerbaijani government and demand the release of "political prisoners."
A second lawyer has been barred from defending jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus.
A court in Baku has sentenced a journalist to 25 days in detention on charges of using vulgar words in public.
Jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus says she has been deprived of her lawyer.
The pretrial detention of prominent Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus has been extended.
The trial of an investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has been postponed till October 17.
Thousands of opposition supporters in Azerbaijan have attended an antigovernment rally in the capital, Baku, demanding the resignation of President Ilham Aliyev and an end to the repression of human rights defenders and civic activists.
An explosion in a store on the outskirts of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, killed at least one and injured four others on October 8.
Lawyers of Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus say that their client has been beaten in pretrial detention.
A sexually explicit video showing former activist Said Nuri has been posted on the Internet in what Nuri says is an attempt by the Azerbaijani authorities to discredit him.
An explosion has partially destroyed an apartment building in Azerbaijan, leaving at least three people missing.
The Council of Europe's human rights chief has harshly criticized Azerbaijani authorities over what he says is the deterioration of human rights and basic freedoms in the oil-producing Caspian Sea country.
A U.S. citizen of Azerbaijani origin, Said Nuri, has been barred from leaving Azerbaijan.
Police in Azerbaijan's Abseron district have detained a well-known opposition journalist named Seymur Hazi.
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