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Azerbaijan Urged To Lift Journalist’s ‘Unjust’ Travel Ban (RFE/RL)

 Three nongovernmental organizations are urging Azerbaijan to lift a travel ban against investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova and allow her to travel to Britain to give evidence in the trial of a journalist who is being sued for defamation by an Azerbaijani lawmaker… In a joint statement on January 15, Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders U.K., and […]
2020-01-16

Human rights groups demand Azerbaijan lift travel ban on investigative journalist (Emerging Europe)

 “Azerbaijan is unjustly and unfairly preventing Khadija Ismayilova from travelling internationally as a means to punish her and stifle the spread of her reporting,” said Index on Censorship chief executive Jodie Ginsberg. “Given the UK’s stated commitment to speak out more publicly on threats to media freedom, we urge Britain to join our calls for […]
2020-01-15

Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders UK and Transparency International UK urge Azerbaijan to lift journalist’s travel ban

 Azerbaijan authorities should lift a travel ban against award-winning investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, UK-based rights groups urged on 15 January.
2020-01-15

Monitoring and Advocating for Media Freedom: Policy recommendations for Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine

 Governments and the EU must take a stronger stand for media freedom, a new Index report on media freedom in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine argues
2019-12-02

Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations October 2019

 There were 3 incidents in Azerbaijan in September 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-11-28

Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations September 2019

 There were 3 incidents in Azerbaijan in September 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-10-14

Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations August 2019

 There were 2 incidents in Azerbaijan in August 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-09-11

Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations July 2019

 There were 5 incidents in Azerbaijan in July 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-08-06

Trolls and insults: Azerbaijan’s exiled media increasingly under fire

 After the total capture of the media environment inside the country, the government of Ilham Aliyev has turned its attention to silencing critics in exile.
2019-07-31

Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations June 2019

 There were 2 incidents in Azerbaijan in June 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-07-04

Project Exile: Wife of kidnapped Azerbaijani journalist puts her career on hold to campaign for her husband’s release

 Leyla Mustafayeva is an Azerbaijani journalist and the wife of investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who was kidnapped in Georgia in May 2017 and later imprisoned in Azerbaijan
2019-06-21

Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Russia among Europe’s most flagrant offenders of media freedom in 2018

 In 2018, 17 alerts were submitted to the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists relating to impunity for murders of journalists.
2019-06-20