August 29, 2025 – Azerbaijan – Azerbaijani authorities have intensified their pressure on independent media with the arrest of photojournalist Ahmed Mukhtar, who has become the […]
August 22, 2025 – Azerbaijan – In reaction to the increasing repression of independent media in Azerbaijan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), alongside exiled Azerbaijani media organizations—Free […]
July 25, 2025 – Russia/Azerbaijan – Veteran journalist Mikhail Gusman, the first deputy director general of Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, was abruptly dismissed after attending […]
July 22, 2025 – Azerbaijan – Sevinj Vagifgizi, editor-in-chief of the independent news outlet Abzas Media, is serving a 9-year prison sentence imposed on June 20 on false […]
July 14, 2025 – Azerbaijan/France – An exhibition honoring 14 Azerbaijani journalists who lost their lives while performing their professional duties during Armenia’s military aggression against […]
July 10, 2025 – Azerbaijan – A fresh wave of repression is sweeping Azerbaijan, as academic and media dissenters face sweeping prosecutions amid the country’s consolidation […]
June 20, 2025 – Azerbaijan – In a sweeping blow to press freedom, a court in Baku has sentenced seven independent journalists to prison terms ranging […]
June 02, 2025 – Azerbaijan – Farid Mehralizada, an Azerbaijani economist and journalist working with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), is on trial facing a possible […]
May 27, 2025 – Azerbaijan – Ulviyya Ali (also known as Ulviyya Guliyeva) is an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist who was arrested on May […]