Jailed Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev may face a new drug-related charge, which could extend his 8 1/2 year sentence he is currently serving, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
"The New York Times" yesterday highlighted Tehran's fears of its "increasingly aggressive separatist groups," so a rare video dug up by RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service is an interesting reminder.
The president of Azerbaijan has granted amnesty to an opposition journalist who rights groups say was jailed for his critical writings.
Azerbaijan held local elections today amid reports of irregularities and falsifications, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
The two jailed Azerbaijani bloggers say they hold out no hope of a successful appeal and want to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service report.
EU parliamentarians say they want a resolution critical of Azerbaijan to be seen as a warning message for authorities in Baku, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution critical of what it calls the deterioration of media freedom in Azerbaijan.
Former Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis says that deteriorating media freedom in Azerbaijan reminds him of the Soviet period and that it is time for Baku to choose whether it wants to follow the European path, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
A European Parliament working group discussed a draft resolution today on the deteriorating situation regarding freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
Amnesty International claims that Azerbaijani leaders can expect to receive up to 10,000 handwritten letters from Poland calling on them to release two jailed bloggers, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
Benita Ferrero-Waldner served five years as the EU's external relations commissioner before making way on December 1 for the bloc's new high representative for foreign policy, Catherine Ashton. In an interview with RFE/RL, Ferrero-Waldner cautions the bloc's Eastern neighbors to accept the fact that the reforms needed to make them ready for the EU could take "generations."
An appeal to release two jailed Azerbaijani bloggers was among letters written at an Amnesty International event in Prague for human rights day, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
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