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International broadcasters join forces to protest “escalating campaign… to silence independent media in Iran.”

A freelance correspondent for RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service, Radio Azadliq, is back in Baku after being abducted and forcibly expelled to the Iranian border by unidentified men in the Azerbaijani exclave…

A rights activist and RFE reporter in northwestern Kazakhstan has been acquitted of libel.

Mikhal Karnievich, Radio Svaboda correspondent, has been fined by a Belarus court for covering a July 3 “silent protest” protest in Hrodna.

One RFE/RL journalist was arrested and another had her video camera confiscated as security forces in Belarus conducted what a RFE/RL journalist described as an “unprecedented” crackdown on July 3…

A rights activist and RFE reporter in northwestern Kazakhstan has been acquitted of libel.

RFE’s “Pas Farda” and its host Farshid Manafi have won two silver medals from the 2011 New York Festivals Radio Program & Promotion Awards, an annual competition recognizing excellence in…

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.

On May 1, 1951, the first director of the “Voice of Free Czechoslovakia” vowed that RFE’s programs would “smash the communist monopoly on speaking to the Czech nation.”