The Arab Spring has not stopped Britain from helping crush free expression by selling crowd control ammunition to authoritarian states including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Alex Stevenson reports
The sentencing of eight youth activists this week is just the latest addition to a long list of human rights abuses by Azerbaijani authorities
We should enjoy the football and praise the players, but we owe it to brave Azerbaijanis to ask some tough questions about Atlético’s relationship with Ilham Aliyev’s repressive regime, Padraig Reidy writes
Minister Usubov Ramil Idris oglu Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Avenue 7 1005 Baku Republic of Azerbaijan...
Azadliq has been named The Guardian Journalism Award winner.
On International Women’s Day, we salute all the women around the world who stand up for freedom of expression
One of the few remaining independent media outlets in Azerbaijan, Azadliq has continued to report on government corruption and cronyism in spite of increasing pressures and a financial squeeze enforced by the authorities.
Khadija Ismayilova tells democratic countries she doesn’t want “private diplomacy”: “I don’t believe in human rights advocacy behind closed doors. People of my country need to know that human rights are supported.”
A power outage prior to the screening of an arts documentary in Azerbaijan has raised concerns as to the government’s involvement in censoring artistic freedom of expression
The glossy image presented in the title edited by President Aliyev’s daughter is in stark contrast to the country of those fighting for democracy, writes Milana Knezevic
The world's spotlight has moved on from Azerbaijan. But Azerbaijan is still beset by intimidation and violence, leading newspapers are under attack...
On the eve of the International Day To End Impunity, we look back at the journalists intimidated, attacked and killed in 2013
The government of Azerbaijan has curtailed the ability of its citizens to express dissent, expose corruption or press for respect of human rights.
