- Azerbaijan: Government ban on foreign radio stations called 'strategic error'
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by Azerbaijan's National Television and Radio Councilâ##s decision today to ban foreign radio stations from broadcasting on local FM and medium wave frequencies from 1 January.
- Boycott BP's Baku games
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Baku, the oil capital of Azerbaijan, is set to host the 2015 European games. However, it's not just fun and games in this city. Azerbaijan is a country famous for oppressing freedom of speech, abusing journalists and keeping political prisoners. Furthermore, the main sponsor for the European games is oil tycoon BP. The 2015 games are a slew of political and environmental controversies.
- Deprived of income, Azerbaijani paper is forced to stop publishing
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 One of Azerbaijans leading independent newspapers, the Russian-language Zerkalo (Mirror), has been forced to stop publishing because government control of the advertising market and distribution networks has deprived it of the income it needs to keep operating.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Encyclopeida of Asian History
Resource Type: Book
- IFJ and EFJ condemn "outrageous" 7.5 year jail sentence for Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7.5 years in jail
- IFJ and EFJ Condemn Azerbaijan Call for 'Public Hatred' towards Independent Media
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Condemning the call by the Azeri government for a show of public hatred' against independent media.
- In Azerbaijan, media watchdog raided, equipment confiscated
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijani authorities to stop harassing the Baku-based media freedom group Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety.
- The Nagorno-Karabakh Story the US Does Not Want You to Know
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 In the early morning hours of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive into the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) that's been controlled and defended by NK Armenian forces since the Russian brokered truce ended a bloody three year war in 1994. While Azeri President Ilham Aliyev was flying back to Baku after meeting 24 hours earlier with John Kerry in Washington who claimed "an ultimate resolution" had been reached, Azerbaijan was already once again at war with the NK Armenians.
- On the shocking death of Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliyev
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety is in shock over the murder of our longtime employee and board member, current Chairman Rasim Aliyev. On August 8, 2015, unknown persons beat Aliyev to within inches of his life. He died several hours later in a hospital after doctors failed to provide necessary medical treatment.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Opposition daily throttled financially by lawsuits and dirty tricks
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The daily newspaper Azadliq, one of the few remaining opposition news outlets, is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially. Many members of Azadliqs staff have been individually persecuted in connection with their work.
- Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
- Slavs and Tatars Presents Molla Nasreddin
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Molla Nasreddin was an Azerbaijani magazine published from 1906 to 1930 in Azeri, a Turkish dialect. Named after a traditional figure of fun, the text and numerous illustrations lampoon hypocrites of the period in the clergy and the government. It has been reissued by a group of artists called Slavs and Tatars.
- Socialist Register 2003
Volume 39: Fighting Identities Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2003
- Stop harassment and legal action against leading investigative journalist
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately lift the travel ban imposed on Khadija Ismayilova and cease all legal proceedings against her. Against the backdrop of the unprecedented crackdown on civil society, Khadija Ismayilova's arrest on crimi
- Truth Is The First Casualty Of War: Nagorno-Karabakh And Media Misinformation
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The Crimean War, in mid-19th century, introduced the world to the cardigan, the raglan jersey, and the balaclava headdress. It also introduced a new profession: the foreign correspondent. And almost immediately after the war the axiom "truth is the first casualty of war" was born because of the falsehoods spread by foreign correspondents on both sides.
- Two Azeri journalists imprisoned, a third sentenced
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentences given to journalists at the weekly newspaper Nota on defamation charges.
- Well-known Azerbaijan journalist gets five years on absurd charge
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The latest victim of the crackdown that the authorities began last summer is the well-known journalist Seymour Khazi, who was sentenced to five years in prison on a trumped-up charge of aggravated hooliganism at the end of a sham trial yesterday.
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