Azerbaijan: Intensified Crackdown
Authorities Stifle Critics, Impede Work of Independent Groups (Berlin) – The Azerbaijani government sentenced at least 25 journalists and political and youth activists to long [more >>>]
Azerbaijan – Human Rights
A government’s fear or bargaining chips — Political prisoners in Azerbaijan
By GULNUR KAZIMOVA OC Media The number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan is among the highest in Europe. This repression serves not only as a [more >>>]
Azerbaijan’s Media Strangled Whilst Last Nail Driven Into Coffin Of Internet Freedom
INSTITUTE FOR REPORTERS’ FREEDOM and SAFETY (IRFS) The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) condemns the Azerbaijani authorities for politically motivated judgments handed down [more >>>]
Convicted Azerbaijani military officer receives promotion
JAMNEWS Many in Azerbaijan still believe his actions were justified Ramil Safarov [link by CB ed.], an infamous 40-year-old Major in the Azerbaijani army, has [more >>>]
Europe’s murky Eastern energy deals
By MARIANA KOCHLADZE, CEE BANKWATCH Euractiv Millions of euros in public money are being invested in large infrastructure projects in the EU’s eastern neighbours in [more >>>]
From the boat race to Azerbaijani jails: how dirty gas sells itself to elites
By JO RAM, PASCOE SABIDO* OpenDemocracy UK A new report exposes the network of lobbying and hypocrisy that risks locking Europe into decades of unnecessary [more >>>]
EU Lawmakers Urge Release Of Azerbaijani Journalist Muxtarli
RFE/RL BRUSSELS — A letter signed by several members of the European Parliament condemning the treatment of imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist Afqan Muxtarli was sent on [more >>>]
French court rejects Azerbaijani government’s defamation suit
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes today’s decision by a court in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre to reject the Azerbaijani government’s defamation [more >>>]
Azerbaijani Aggression Shouldn’t Be Rewarded With U.S. Aid
By MOVSES TER-OGANESYAN and SUREN SARGSYAN* Forbes Due to the Soviet Union’s policy of divide and rule, the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. unleashed devastating wars [more >>>]
In Tbilisi, with exiled members of Azerbaijan’s civil society
By VALENTIN LUNTUMBUE* New Eastern Europe Walking uphill from the Heydar Aliyev enbankment, along the Koura river, we were strolling the grounds of Tbilisi’s [more >>>]