The hashtag was launched by organisers of this summer’s inaugural European Games in the country’s capital Baku
Twitter users hijack #HelloBaku to shine spotlight on Azerbaijan’s human rights abuses
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Index announces winners of 15th annual Freedom of Expression Awards
A Kenyan activist speaking out for women in one of the world’s most dangerous regions, and a female journalist who exposed an unreported uprising in Saudi Arabia are among the winners of this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards
Special Index Freedom of Expression Award given to persecuted Azerbaijani activists and journalists
The award, for Azerbaijanis continuing their struggle for freedom, rights and dignity, was given out at the 2015 Index Award ceremony in London on 18 March
Azerbaijan: Protest as Baku prepares for European Games
Azerbaijanis protested the poor state of human rights in their country with 87 days to go until the inaugural European Games
Azerbaijan: Journalist sentenced to five years for “aggravated hooliganism”
Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Hezi, who works for Index on Censorship Free of Expression Award-winning newspaper Azadliq, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for “aggravated hooliganism”
Azerbaijan: Sham trial of rights activist Rasul Jafarov begins
Prominent human rights campaigner Rasul Jafarov has been detained since 2 August on trumped up charges
Azerbaijan’s 12 months of paralysing attacks on civil society
Twelve months ago Rebecca Vincent and Rasul Jafarov wrote for Index on Censorship magazine on a crackdown on photojournalists in Azerbaijan. A year later Jafarov is in prison awaiting trial, and Vincent writes about the spiralling threats towards anyone who speaks out about democracy
Azerbaijan: Government arrests investigative journalist
The arrest of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova today underscores the entrenched authoritarian instincts of the government of President Ilham Aliyev
Nils Muižnieks: Azerbaijan’s reprisals against brave activists and journalists must stop now
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights reflects on his recent mission to Azerbaijan – one of the most difficult of his tenure
No justice: how impunity silences journalists
Ahead of the International Day to End Impunity, journalists from around the world tell Index why impunity is a serious threat to free expression