There were 2 incidents in Azerbaijan in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
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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
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.
Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations May 2019
There were 11 incidents in Azerbaijan in May 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations April 2019
There were 6 incidents in Azerbaijan in April 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov released from prison
Index on Censorship welcomes the release of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Mehman Huseynov.
Index renews calls for Azerbaijan to release journalist Afgan Mukhtarli
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli fled the country in fear in 2014 but in May 2017 he vanished while in Tbilisi, Georgia, and reappeared the following day back in his home country
Escalating repression against Mehman Huseynov
Member and partner NGOs of 13 Human Rights Houses issue a joint letter calling for urgent action from the international community to ensure the life, health, and rights of imprisoned Azerbaijani photojournalist, video blogger, and human rights defender Mehman Huseynov.
Send a letter to imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Hezi
The editors of the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award-winning newspaper Azadliq have launched a letter-writing campaign to journalist Seymur Hezi, who is in prison.
Illiberal democracies: Awash in media without plurality
Visitors to Eurasian countries — Turkey, Russia, Ukraine or, to a lesser extent, Azerbaijan — might be impressed by the sheer number of domestic television channels that offer news programming. But all the coverage doesn’t translate into media plurality.
The government of Azerbaijan has curtailed the ability of its citizens to express dissent, expose corruption or press for respect of human rights.