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.
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.
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.
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