Ismayilova, a prominent investigative journalist who contributes to RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, has been sentenced by a court in Baku to two months of pretrial detention.
The U.S. State Department urged the Azeri government "to respect the universal rights of its citizens and allow them to freely express their views" in a statement made following the detention of a journalist on Friday.
Intigam Aliyev, a prominent human rights lawyer, has been behind bars since August 8 as the result of a crackdown targeting independent journalists, human rights defenders, and government critics in Azerbaijan.
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) urged Azerbaijan to respect the work of independent journalists in remarks made on Capitol Hill yesterday, after journalist Khadija Ismayilova was barred from traveling to Washington to testify at a CSCE hearing on combating corruption.
The OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media condemned escalating attacks against the media in Azerbaijan.
Currently under a travel ban, investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova speaks about Azerbaijan’s attack on civil society, and the lack of a credible international response.
RFE/RL’s award-winning Ukrainian service correspondent has provided unflinching coverage from the country's most embattled regions.
Officials have failed to address the assassinations, kidnappings, and threats that continue to target journalists in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province.
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee awarded the 2014 Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award to all political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
The head of RFE/RL's Crimea desk provides a vivid portrait of the 'new Russian reality' on the peninsula, where political pressure, banking restrictions, legal uncertainty, and a sense of menace put independent media at risk.
The U.S. government opened an annual OSCE gathering in Warsaw with charges that the Russian Federation is conducting a 'systematic campaign' to stifle dissent in the media.
Russian blogger Alexei Gaskarov is among the latest in a series of Russian activists to be imprisoned on charges of rioting at a protest on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inauguration in May, 2012. He has continued blogging from his cell.
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