Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, BBG Governor Ashe Awards RFE Literary Prize, Discusses Local Media Environment
At a ceremony Wednesday in Baku, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Member Victor H. Ashe presented Musa Efendi with the Oxu Zali (“Reading Room”) literature award.
‘Radio Azadliq Saved My Life’ Says Released Azerbaijani Journalist
In his first interview after being released from prison today, journalist Eynulla Fatullayev told RFE’s Azerbaijan Service, Radio Azadliq, “We cannot let independent, critical journalism disappear in Azerbaijan.”
‘Caged’ Azerbaijani Bloggers Defiant in Baku Courtroom
Two Azerbaijani bloggers being held in a steel cage in a Baku courtroom today told an RFE/RL reporter that it is their “duty” to take their case to the European…
RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service Wins Major Award for Political Coverage
In the face of ongoing pressure and harassment from authorities, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service (Radio Azadliq) has won one of journalism’s most prestigious awards for its coverage of Azerbaijan’s controversial March…
RFE/RL Reporter Wins Prestigious Human Rights Prize
A journalist for RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service has won the prestigious Rafto Prize for her reporting on human rights and abuses of power in her native province of Nakhichevan.
Azerbaijan Shuts Down RFE/RL, VOA, BBC
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Jeffrey Gedmin called today’s decision by the government of Azerbaijan to take foreign broadcasters off the air “a sad day for the Azeri people,…
US, EU Oppose Azerbaijani Plans to Drop RFE, VOA, BBC
The United States and Europe are reacting with concern to Azerbaijan’s proposal to discontinue local radio broadcasts of international media such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the Voice of…
Reporters Attacked in Azerbaijan
Incited by local police, a mob attacked two Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists as they were reporting from a local market in Azerbaijan’s lawless Nakhichevan province.
Azeri Reporter Wins Top Prize
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Babek Bekir, who recently produced a series of groundbreaking reports on the Azerbaijani drug trade, is being honored today with that country’s most prestigious journalism…
RFE/RL Azerbaijan Service Wins “Most Successful Media” Award
The Azerbaijani Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty today was named “Most Successful Media Organization of the Year,” by Women’s Media Watch, an organization of women journalists in Baku.