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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Locking up free expression: Azerbaijan silences critical voices
Intimidation, violence and media clampdown – free expression in Azerbaijan is under siege. The country’s record on free expression has undergone a marked deterioration in the run up to its presidential election.
Azerbaijan’s photographers: Facing arrest for capturing the raw truth
In the run up to Azerbaijan’s presidential election, authorities have showed open hostility to journalists, activists, ordinary citizens and artists. Rasul Jafarov and Rebecca Vincent look at some of the country’s courageous photojournalists, who document what life’s really like under President Ilham Aliyev
Putin’s cold calculation on Arctic drilling
Greenpeace prosecutions show the lengths the Russian president will go to to protect his oligarch friends, says Elena Vlasenko
Five things Aliyev doesn’t want you to know about Azerbaijan’s presidential election
Although its government has been working hard to promote a positive image of Azerbaijan abroad, at home, it continues to crack down on citizens’ ability to exercise their basic rights and fundamental freedoms, Rebecca Vincent writes
Obama and Harper — Modes of Support for Fossil Fuel Development
The collision between climate science and energy politics, and threats to freedom of communication, are playing out differently in the United States and Canada, Rick Piltz, founder and director of Climate Science Watch, writes
Ban art that targets far right, says Hungarian ambassador
Exhibition in Austria mocking Hungary’s far right is labelled “racist” by ambassador
On speaking ill of the dead
The Miliband row brings up questions of how we talk about the deceased, says Padraig Reidy
Who nominated Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Just who are the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation?
Azerbaijan locks up journalists as it prepares for “election”
In the run-up to next week’s presidential elections, Index on Censorship travelled to Baku to meet journalists, human rights defenders, political activists, and citizens. Melody Patry reports