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Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

Published on 3 August 2011Read

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Foreign reporters denied entry as territorial dispute escalates

Published on 6 July 2011Read

Newspaper editor freed on presidential pardon after four years in prison

Reporters Without Borders is enormously relieved that Realny Azerbaijan editor Eynulla Fatullayev was finally released yesterday on a (...)

Published on 27 May 2011 Read

Blogger sentenced to two years in prison

A district court in the western city of Ganja yesterday sentenced the blogger Bakhtiyar Hajiyev to two years in prison on a charge of evading (...)

Published on 19 May 2011 Read

Authorities arrest foreign TV journalists covering protest

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that three Swedish TV journalists were arrested while preparing to cover an opposition (...)

Published on 18 April 2011 Read

PACE Must Take Action to Address Alarming Freedom of Expression Situation

Member organisations of the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) are deeply concerned by the rapidly deteriorating freedom of (...)

Published on 12 April 2011 Read

Journalists among victims of regime’s violent response to pro-democracy protests

As pro-democracy protests gain pace in Azerbaijan, the regime is cracking down harder on journalists in a desperate attempt to assert its control (...)

Published on 5 April 2011 Read

Journalist abducted and beaten

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns a particularly shocking attack last weekend on Seymour Khaziyev, a journalist with the opposition (...)

Published on 28 March 2011 Read

Youth Activists Targeted as Freedom of Expression Clampdown Continues

Member organisations of the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan condemn the recent wave of arrests of youth activists and bloggers in (...)

Published on 10 March 2011 Read

Parliament cancels creation of information ombudsman

Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned a parliamentary vote on 21 December that overwhelmingly overturned a plan to create an ombudsman (...)

Published on 10 January 2011 Read

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Azerbaijan - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Azerbaijan - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Azerbaijan - 2 August 2011

Two seizures of newspaper issues by regional governments in past month

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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