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Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations May 2019

 There were 11 incidents in Azerbaijan in May 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-05-31

Azerbaijan: Press freedom violations April 2019

 There were 6 incidents in Azerbaijan in April 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-04-30

#IndexAwards2019: Mehman Huseynov refuses to look away from Azerbaijan’s human rights violations

 Mehman Huseynov is a journalist and human rights defender who documents corruption and human rights violations in Azerbaijan
2019-03-27

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.
2019-03-04

Azerbaijan takes step in right direction by dropping new charges against Mehman Huseynov

 While Index on Censorship welcomes dropping of new charges against Mehman Huseynov, the organisation calls on Azerbaijan to release the human rights defender and journalist from prison
2019-01-23

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
2019-01-22

Azerbaijan Censured for Blackmailing Reporter With Sex Tape (Courthouse News Service, 10 January 2019)

 Siding with a journalist who was secretly filmed having sex in her own home, the European Court of Human Rights fined Azerbaijan on Thursday for violating the woman’s privacy and freedom of expression. Read the full article
2019-01-10

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.
2018-10-22

Journalism in Exile: Editor uses social media to pressure Azerbaijan’s government

 On the night that Rahim Haciyev accepted the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Guardian Journalism Award, he held aloft a copy of Azadliq, the paper that persevered despite assaults from the government whose misdoings it exposed
2018-07-23

The EU must take a strong stand on media freedom and human rights in Azerbaijan
2018-07-17

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly appoints rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan
2018-07-05

Civil society call on PACE to appoint a Rapporteur to examine the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

 Representatives of international non-governmental organizations issue an appeal to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to request the appointment of a Rapporteur to examine the situation of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
2018-06-15