Want to say - 2015
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Almost all the news coming out of Azerbaijan these days is bad. On August 9, an independent Azerbaijani journalist, Rasim Aliyev, was beaten and killed. A few days later, civil society activists Leyla...
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The convicted human rights activist Leila Yunus released a statement on September 22, in which she expressed gratitude to the French television reporters, who shot a lot of material about the situatio...
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Just three months ago, Azerbaijan was playing host to the inaugural European Games. These days, it seems as though Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s administration is prepared to make a break with...
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We pause today to reflect on and celebrate democracy and the free and open debate it entails.We celebrate democracy not because it is easy or perfect, for it is obviously neither of those things.We ce...
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CONTROLLING THE STORY: This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series examining the human cost of reporting the news around the world.
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A kangaroo court in Egypt recently sentenced three journalists from the Al Jazeera English network to three years in prison for committing journalism.On Tuesday, in Azerbaijan, an award-winning invest...
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Some regional experts want the United States and European Union to consider imposing economic and political penalties on Azerbaijan to put pressure on Baku to respect basic individual freedoms. The se...
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By Editorial BoardAZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT Ilham Aliyev has imprisoned nearly 100 journalists, human rights advocates, religious believers and opposition figures in the past several years, transforming h...
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A court in Azerbaijan sentenced Khadija Ismayilova, a prominent journalist whose investigations of staggering corruption among the country’s ruling elite won her international awards, to seven years a...
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On 1 September the Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced a well-known investigative journalist Khadija Ismailova to 7.5 years in prison. The court found her guilty under the Articles 179 (misappropri...










