As Formula One fans prepare for the Baku Grand Prix on Sunday, Index on Censorship looks at the country’s dismal human rights record
Azerbaijan: Why Formula One fans are paying attention for all the wrong reasons
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CATEGORY: Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Around the world protestors celebrate Khadija Ismayilova’s birthday
Organisations and individuals from across the world took to the streets to celebrate the investigative journalist’s birthday and call for the release of all political prisoners in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Index on Censorship calls for Khadija Ismayilova’s convictions to be quashed
Index on Censorship calls for all Khadija Ismayilova’s convictions to be quashed following the reduction in her jail sentence to a three-and-a-half-year suspended term
Azerbaijan: Journalist Khadija Ismayilova released from prison
Investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova has been released from prison on probation in Azerbaijan after an international campaign to free her
Who is investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova?
One of Azerbaijan’s most celebrated journalists, Ismayilova’s investigative reports included, among other things, exposing Azerbaijan’s human rights abuses and the corruption involving the family of president Ilham Aliyev
Mapping Media Freedom: Two years of uncovering attacks on Europe’s press
Mapping Media Freedom launched to the public on 24 May 2014. Two years on, the platform has verified over 1,800 media violations
Mapping Media Freedom marks second year of monitoring censorship in Europe
Journalists have been murdered and burned in effigy. Reporters have been publicly discredited by government officials, prosecuted for under anti-terrorism laws
Azerbaijan: Free prisoners before Baku Grand Prix race
The Formula One Group leadership should urge the Azerbaijani government to release unjustly imprisoned activists and journalists ahead of the European Grand Prix
Azerbaijan: Appeal date announced for jailed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Khadija Ismayilova, one of Azerbaijan’s most celebrated journalists, will be given the opportunity to appeal against the decision by the Baku Court of Appeal to imprison her
Azerbaijan: Independent media under unprecedented attack
The Sport for Rights coalition calls for the Azerbaijani authorities to take immediate and concrete steps to cease this persecution of the independent media, starting with the unconditional release of Khadija Ismayilova and Azerbaijan’s other political prisoners.
The government of Azerbaijan has curtailed the ability of its citizens to express dissent, expose corruption or press for respect of human rights.