Azerbaijan
RFE/RL Reporters Faced ‘Relentless Pressure’ In 12 Of 23 Countries In 2017
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have been targeted in no fewer than 38 incidents in at least 12 of the countries they cover in 2017.
RFE/RL Takes Azerbaijani Case To European Court
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to resolve claims brought by the Azerbaijani government that have hampered its news reporting inside…
Azerbaijani Court Blocks RFE/RL Website
A district court in Baku today ruled in favor of a lawsuit blocking access within Azerbaijan to the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Azerbaijani Service, azadliq.org.
Threats To RFE/RL Journalists Multiply In 2017
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have been targeted in hostile incidents in at least 10 countries in 2017, in what the company called “relentless pressure” on its journalistic mission.
Azerbaijan Seeks Court Action To Ban RFE/RL Website
In an escalation of a targeted campaign against RFE/RL, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Transport, Communications, and High Technologies has filed an official complaint with a Baku court requesting that RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani…
Major Azerbaijan Internet Provider Reportedly Blocking RFE/RL
One of Azerbaijan’s biggest Internet service providers appears to be blocking access to RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service website, a major source of independent news for the country.
Cat-And-Mouse In Baku: Authorities Try To Thwart An Azerbaijani Investigative Reporter
In her storied career as Azerbaijan’s most prominent investigative reporter, Khadija Ismayilova has been harassed, stalked, banned from traveling, and had compromising videos of her circulate on the Internet.
Ismayilova Addresses Repression, Russian Media Influence At Capitol Hill Azerbaijan Hearing
Witnesses testifying at a U.S. congressional hearing on September 15 voiced deep concern about rising Russian influence and instability in Azerbaijan, as well as the continued forced closure of RFE/RL’s…
RFE/RL Demands Azerbaijan Reopen Baku Bureau
An Azerbaijani court will convene on August 3 to hear RFE/RL’s appeal against tax-related claims that were used by the government as grounds to shutter the company’s Baku bureau in…
Ismayilova Freed From Prison But Intent On Justice
Elated but defiant, RFE/RL journalist Khadija Ismayilova walked out of prison in Baku today after Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court suspended her jail sentence, vowing to take the Azerbaijani government to court…