CATEGORY: Azerbaijan News
Azerbaijan: Editor Eynulla Fatullayev loses appeal
Imprisoned newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev has lost an appeal against his drugs conviction. Baku Appellate Court dismissed Fatullayev's plea to...
Shortlist announcement for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2010
Honouring those who, often at great personal risk, have fought to expose censorship and abuse
Awards auction: Lots include villas in France & Italy, a Patrick Hughes painting and a guitar lesson with Mark Knopfler
Azerbaijani journalists forbidden from filming subjects
Laws were revised late last Friday forbidding journalists from filming, recording or photographing subjects without their express permission....
Azerbaijan convicts newspaper editor of libel
Newspaper editor Ayyub Karimov has been given a 18-month suspended sentence after being convicted of libelling the interior minister Ramil Usubov....
Azerbaijan: editor charged
Imprisoned newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev has been charged with drugs offences after Azerbaijani authorities claim to have found heroin in his...
Azerbaijan: donkey bloggers punished
The imprisonment of two online activists shows the battle for democracy is increasingly fought online, says
Vugar Gojayev
Azerbaijan: donkey video bloggers sentenced
Bloggers Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli were sentenced on 11 November to two years and two-and-a-half years in prison respectively. Human rights...
Bloggers’ trial marred by irregularities
The trial of Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, the two Azerbaijani bloggers facing charges of “hooliganism” and “deliberate physical violence”, resumed yesterday.
Azerbaijan: new charge against bloggers
An additional charge of “intentional physical violence” have been brought against Adnan Hadji Zadeh and Emin Milli, two bloggers who have been held...
Azerbaijanis in Eurovision probe
Forty-three Azerbaijani music fans who voted for neighbouring Armenia in this year's Eurovision song contest have been detained and questioned about...
Plight of bloggers gains international support
Vugar Gojayev assesses the impact on free expression and activism in Azerbaijan as bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada face trial