Azerbaijani bloggers, Adnan Hadji Zadeh and Emin Mili, have lost their appeal for release and are being detained for two months pending trial on...
Two bloggers denied appeal in Azerbaijan
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CATEGORY: Azerbaijan News
Azerbaijan: new law will leave NGOs in limbo
An oppressive new set of rules on the free expression of civil society groups will put Azerbaijan on a par with its totalitarian neighbours, says...
Azerbaijan: Reading about God is dangerous
Azerbaijan has a new, harsher religion law and new penalties for producing, selling, circulating, importing and exporting religious literature...
Amnesty award for jailed Azeri journalist
Azerbaijani newspaper editor, Eynulla Fatullayev who was jailed after criticising his government has been given Amnesty International's award for...
Journalists’ Trade Union (JuHI)
The Journalists' Trade Union’s main goals are the protection of the social, economic and labour rights of people working in mass media and the...
Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS)
The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is an organisation that monitors violence against journalists and violations of journalists'...
Freedom of Expression Awards 2009 shortlist announced
Index on Censorship today announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards. The awards, presented in association with the...
Satirist beaten in jail
Azerbaijani satirist and government critic Sakit Zakhidov, known by his pen name, Mirza Sakit, was brutally beaten in jail on 18 October, local...
Azerbaijan goes to polls with weakened media
President Aliyev’s tight grip on the press has severely damaged his country’s democracy, writes Vugar Gojayev Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan...
Opposition journalist in Azerbaijan attacked
Journalist Agil Khalil of the opposition newspaper Azadlig had an attempt made on his life on 7 May, when someone tried to push him under an...
Azerbaijan: Journalist beaten
Agil Khalilov, a reporter for the Azerbaijani daily paper Azadlig, was beaten whilst filming an illegal land sale. The perpetrators of the attack...
Reporters sentenced to hard labour
A court in Baku, Azerbijan, has sentenced two journalists to hard labour following their conviction for libel. The charges related to articles they...
