Two days of unauthorized protests in Baku were met with violence by the authorities. The demonstrations mark an uptick in street activism in the tightly controlled Caucasian country.
The Asian Development Bank’s connectivity project in Inner Asia is moving forward, with delegates in Tashkent pushing ahead plans to create a regional energy market in the center of Eurasia with Central Asia playing a key role.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, have detained several protesters who had gathered for a second straight day of unauthorized demonstrations.
Police detained dozen of protesters in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on October 19. The leader of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party, Ali Kerimli, was among those detained. Protesters were calling for the release of political prisoners and reductions in rates for natural gas and electricity. The latest crackdown comes after several people were detained at a protest on October 8 in Baku in support of the right to free assembly organized by the National Council of Democratic Forces, an umbrella group of Azerbaijani opposition forces.
Police have detained dozens of opposition activists before and during a protest in the Azerbaijani capital on October 19.
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have signed an accord to prolong visa-free stays for their citizens in the two countries from 30 days to 90 days.
Authorities prevented protesters from gathering for an authorized rally in support of the right to freedom of assembly in the Azerbaijani capital on October 8. Police began detaining people an hour before the event's scheduled 3:00 p.m. start in downtown Baku.
Azerbaijani police detained several people in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, during a protest on October 8 in support of freedom of assembly organized by the National Council of Democratic Forces -- (NCDF) -- an umbrella group of Azerbaijani opposition forces.
Azerbaijan's parliament has approved former presidential aide Ali Asadov as the new prime minister just hours after Norvuz Mammadov tendered his resignation.
A "GONGO" army of trolls has been created by repressive regimes in former Soviet republics to deflect criticism of their poor human rights records.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
An Azerbaijani journalist, who was released from prison after serving a five-year term for hooliganism, a charge he has rejected as politically motivated, says the incarceration did not make him change his views.
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