May 4, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A district court in Baku today sentenced two journalists to jail terms for an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
May 4, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Armenian journalist Vardan Hovhannisyan has won an award as best new documentary filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
BAKU, May 2, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Ilham Aliyev, the president of oil-rich Azerbaijan, said today that Azerbaijani and Belarusian firms have begun consultations on future cooperation in the energy sphere
An Internet cafe in Iran, where a number of journalists have been arrested (file photo) (AFP) May 2, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Societies have more access to information, but weak laws and prosecution against the media have eroded journalists' investigative abilities.
NEW YORK, May 1, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Press freedom suffered continued global decline in 2006, with particularly troubling trends evident in Asia, the former Soviet Union, and Latin America. This is the main conclusion of a survey released today by <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=70&release=494" target="_blank">Freedom House</a>, a U.S.-based nongovernmental institution measuring freedom around the world. RFE/RL correspondent Nikola Krastev spoke with Christopher Walker, Freedom House's director of studies.
An Iranian Internet cafe in Tehran (file photo) (epa) LONDON, 30 April 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The annual global survey of "e-readiness," published by London's Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), shows that the so-called "Asian Tigers" have been the biggest advancers in "e-readiness."
(RFE/RL) April 28, 2007 -- Azerbaijan says it will go ahead with a high-level visit to the United States that it had canceled in protest of a U.S. State Department human rights report.
April 27, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- An OSCE official has asked Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to issue a moratorium on the criminal prosecution of journalists.
Eldar Namazov (file photo) (RFE/RL) April 27, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Opposition politician Eldar Namazov, who resigned in October 1999 as an adviser to Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, published a three-part article in February-March 2007 in successive issues of the opposition weekly "Realny Azerbaijan" focusing on the relative strength of regional political groupings in Azerbaijan and the role they have played in national politics both before and since independence.
President Arkady Ghukasian has endorsed the head of the region's National Security Service (file photo) (epa) April 26, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Two candidates have announced their intention to participate in the July 19 presidential elections in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, and at least one more is expected to do so.
BAKU, April 23, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. Embassy in Baku has condemned the beating of Azerbaijani journalist Uzeir Jafarov, who remains hospitalized with severe head injuries, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reported.
The U.S.-based Freedom House has expressed concern that the United States is doing less to promote democracy around the world.
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