Azerbaijan has one of the world's worst records on media freedom according to a ranking by Reporters Without Borders -- and it could get worse. A new media law will put even further constraints on ...

On 14 July, the Azerbaijani parliament definitively adopted amendments tightening the country’s media law, which already ...

On December 30, Azerbaijan's parliament approved a new media law after its third and final reading. The law was passed despite mounting criticism from local journalists and is set to be signed by ...

"The law protects media independence, freedom of speech and does not impose any sanctions or restrictions," Aydin Mirzazade, a member of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, told VOA earlier this year.

At the start of this year, a new Media Law introduced further restrictions on the freedom of media and freedom of expression in the country, which, according to Jeanne Cavelier, the head of RSF’s ...

Azerbaijan’s parliament is considering a new law that would impose sweeping new restrictions on the country’s media. On December 14, the draft bill, known as “On the Media,” passed its first reading ...

Jensen said that they want Azerbaijan to revise the law using recommendations from the Venice Commission. The U.S. State Department report on human rights in Azerbaijan noted that with the new law ...

A group of journalists gathered outside Azerbaijan's parliament in Baku on December 28 to protest a new media law that they say will further limit independent journalism in the country.

Preparation of a draft law on media in Azerbaijan is nearing completion, the executive director of the Azerbaijan Media Development Agency, Ahmad Ismayilov said at an event on "Media and legal ...

The difference in Azerbaijan is the formalization of the process, and the fact that there are very few outlets that aren’t subject to the instructions. Until the 2000s, media was relatively diverse in ...

Azerbaijani authorities have arrested Ulvi Hasanli and Sevinc Vagifgizi, top leaders of Abzas Media, an independent media outlet known for investigating and exposing corruption, Human Rights Watch ...