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Detained TV journalist’s ordeal continues

Published on 25 April 2012Read

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Independent journalist beaten unconscious by state oil company guards

Published on 18 April 2012Read

Two-month detention order for two journalists arrested in northern town

Reporters Without Borders condemns the two-month pre-trial detention order that a court in the Baku district of Nasimi issued on 22 March for two (...)

Published on 27 March 2012 Read

“Despicable” campaign to smear woman investigative reporter

Read the joint statement released today by the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns a (...)

Published on 15 March 2012 Read

Online journalist sentenced to 18 months in prison

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that a court in the Baku district of Absheron yesterday sentenced online journalist Ramin (...)

Published on 9 March 2012 Read

Seven Years On, Still No Justice for Elmar Huseynov

On the seventh anniversary of editor Elmar Huseynov’s murder, the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) remains deeply concerned (...)

Published on 2 March 2012 Read

Journalists pay the price as Azeri-Iranian war of words heats up

Reporters Without Borders seeks an explanation for the arrest of Anar Bayramli, a correspondent for Iranian media, and Ramil Dadashov, a driver (...)

Published on 21 February 2012 Read

One blogger denied parole, another pardoned

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its support for the jailed blogger and activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev and calls for his immediate release after (...)

Published on 30 December 2011 Read

Journalist critical of Islam dies four days after being stabbed by attacker

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that writer and journalist Rafiq Tagi died today from the multiple stab wounds he received at the (...)

Published on 23 November 2011 Read

Newspaper hounded, editor jailed

Reporters Without Borders calls for journalist Avaz Zeynalli’s immediate release and condemns yesterday’s decision by a Baku appeal court to hold (...)

Published on 4 November 2011 Read

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Turkey - 12 May 2012

Two Turkish journalists released but more than 37 Syrian journalists still held

United Kingdom - 11 May 2012

Open letter to Members of Parliament on Internet surveillance

Greece - 10 May 2012

Torrent of abuse and threats against journalists from neo-Nazis

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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