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Journalist’s relatives beaten, home attacked with excavator — RSF

The severe beating of members of journalist Idrak Abbasov ‘s family and the partial destruction of their home in a Baku suburb with a mechanical shovel on 9 September on the grounds that it was built illegally have highlighted the surprising brutality of the methods sometimes used by the Azerbaijani authorities to censor and intimidate. The attack was carried out by security personnel working for the state-owned Binagadi Oil Company, whose illegal activities were being investigated by Abbasov, a member of the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS), an Azerbaijani NGO

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Azerbaijan – Embassy cable confirmed government harassment of RFE/RL — Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Cable 09BAKU6 A classified cable to the US State Department from the US chargé d'affaires in Baku, Donald Lu, on 6

Azerbaijan – Stepping up harassment of media, Nakhchivan expels reporter

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Yafez Hasanov was abducted on 31 August by three unidentified men who drove him to the Iranian border and told him to

Freedom House Releases Report: "Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On"

Freedom House: Freedom House today launched a web feature presenting its latest special report, 'Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,' to mark the 20th

Attacks on the Press 2010: Azerbaijan

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• European Court orders release of Eynulla Fatullayev; government still jails editor.
• News sites report periodic blocking, typically

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The Dangerous World of Cold War Broadcasting | Richard H Cummings | Historytimes.com

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, October 01, 2010 -- Murders of journalists by intelligence services of dictatorial regimes and other enemies of free

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Azerbaijan – Obama urged to press Aliyev for release of journalist and two bloggers

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders wrote to US President Barack Obama asking him to request the release of journalist Eynulla Fatullayev and bloggers

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Azerbaijan – Nine NGOs issue joint statement on deterioration of freedom of expression ahead of elections

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan conducted a three-day freedom of expression mission to Azerbaijan from 7-9 September, during which they

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Rights Groups Address Freedom of Expression Concerns in Azerbaijan

Freedom House: Freedom House today joins ten organizations from the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan on a three-day mission to Baku, Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan court rejects dissident blogger’s appeal

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A dissident blogger will remain in jail after an Azerbaijani rejected an appeal for early release, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani

Azerbaijan: Clinton hopes dissident bloggers will be released ‘very soon’

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Following up on her well-received speech to the Community of Democracies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has used

Russia “in the vanguard” of region’s anti-democratic backlash

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Continuing democratic regression in the non-Baltic former Soviet Union presents a serious challenge to policymakers, according to an

NGOs petition to end torture in Azerbaijan

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Azerbaijani civil society groups are urging international support for an investigation into torture cases in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL reports.

Dissident editor freed; other journalists and bloggers remain behind bars

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: An Azerbaijani editor imprisoned for his critical journalism was released on 18 March after serving more than half of a four-year term,

Eynulla Fatullayev and family threatened

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: CPJ has called on Azerbaijani authorities to thoroughly investigate the death threat made against the imprisoned editor and his family.

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