A court in Baku has charged a young Facebook activist with hooliganism over a controversial "Harlem Shake" video.
The multinational musical glitzfest known as Eurovision holds its final in Sweden. But the main sponsor of this year's contest raises eyebrows for its ties to human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan's parliament has legalized tighter Internet controls in a move the country's opposition groups fear could be used to curb online dissent.
In Azerbaijan, there's been an outcry after photos of detained youth activists cleaning toilets were posted on the Internet. The activists and their supporters have called the photos a “provocation” and an act aimed at discrediting them.
Azerbaijan's land and air forces are taking part in the exercises, which are taking place near its mainly Armenian-populated breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh and are expected to last until the end of the week.
An RFE/RL correspondent has been detained in Azerbaijan while reporting on a land dispute protest by villagers in the Imisli district near the border with Iran.
Authorities in Azerbaijan's northeastern town of Xudat have sentenced four local residents to 10 days in jail for taking part in an unapproved protest.
Stefan Fuele, the European Union commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, has called on the EU-hopeful countries of the Eastern Partnership and the Western Balkans to do more to prove their commitment to democratic values. Correspondent Daisy Sindelar spoke to Fuele during his visit to RFE/RL headquarters in Prague on May 9.
During a visit to Prague, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele spoke to RFE/RL correspondent Daisy Sindelar about the issues affecting potential EU accession for the countries across the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus.
Azerbaijan's parliament has approved a broad amnesty for around 9,000 inmates.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has described the unresolved issue of his country's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region as a "major impediment" to regional integration.
While Freedom House classifies 13 of RFE/RL's broadcast countries as "not free," and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) puts three of RFE/RL’s broadcast countries squarely in the worst category, RFE/RL journalists are still on the ground, determined to report the news.
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