Want to say - 2015
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Following the conclusion of an Oct. 19 to 21, 2015 joint international emergency press freedom mission to Turkey, representatives of participating international, regional and local groups dedicated to...
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WHEN THE Soviet Union collapsed almost a quarter-century ago, the new nation of Turkmenistan had grand hopes. Landlocked, and with only 5 million people, it nevertheless hoped to ride its vast natural...
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On the eve of bilateral talks between the State Department and Turkmenistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov, seven media and human rights organizations have written to the Foreign Ministe...
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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...
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Dear court attendants, the court committee, which has turned into the observers of this hearing, and those who have taken the seats of the people who are genuinely interested in attending the hearing:...
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Approximately 150 IDP families settled in the territory of "house-building plant N 3" in the village Darnagul, behind the shopping center Elite declare the intolerable conditions of their life. People...















