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Azerbaijani court delivers first criminal verdict on Internet defamation case 16 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
Screenshot of AccessBank website A district court in southern Azerbaijan convicted a former bank employee for criticizing a private bank on Facebook. On May 2013, Azerbaijan criminalized online defa...
European human rights watchdogs concerned with new restrictions on the Internet freedom in Azerbaijan 7 Jun 2013 | 10:58 am
Dunja Mijatovic and Nils Muižnieks Strasbourg, 06/6/2013 – The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, e...
Is there freedom of the net in Azerbaijan? 29 May 2013 | 06:57 am
Internet cafe in Baku (Photo: i-m-s.dk) It’s a tricky situation. On one hand, I’m free to write and post this piece without circumventing any blocking on blogs or social media. On the other hand, I w...
MP from ruling party proposes to shut down Western embassies in Azerbaijan 3 Apr 2013 | 12:04 am
MP Elman Mammadov Every single day Azeri officials should enlighten and entertain us with some witty comments, it seems. Their unofficial prerogative. After one pro-government MP recently proposed t...
A SPECTRE is haunting the Philharmonic — the spectre of Facebook 23 Mar 2013 | 01:58 pm
Photo from Facebook The news came first as a joke and then as a shock. The enlightened despot-director of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic, a scion of a well-known Azeri musical dynasty, the husban...
Human rights defender denied entry into Azerbaijan 7 Mar 2013 | 03:37 am
Rebecca Vincent, a British-American human rights advocate and former coordinator for the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan has been denied a visa to Azerbaijan, where her family was based...
1.5 million dollars of US taxpayers' money granted to Azerbaijani GONGO 28 Nov 2012 | 08:32 am
Ali Huseynov (Photo: Trend.az) Or how lambs were assigned to wolves for protection Ali Huseynov is a nice guy and a very good legal expert. He is also a member of ruling New Azerbaijan Party and an ...
Internet censored in the very Azerbaijani parliament, no kidding! 17 Nov 2012 | 03:29 am
These two tasteless and ugly towers host Milli Majlis, the Azerbaijani parliament (Photo: Panoramio) Not a week passed since the famous Internet Governance Forum in Baku and occasional repeating of “...
IGF in Baku: Instant Coffee, no Wi-Fi and Vice-Premier for Emergencies 15 Nov 2012 | 12:07 pm
IGF 2012 logo This is how Baku greeted the 7th Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It was the biggest puzzle for me. So much pomp and PR around organization of IGF; bringing half of world’s Inte...
Azerbaijan ruling party, radical opposition unite to protest European Parliament 17 Sep 2012 | 09:50 am
Opposition leader Isa Gambar said the decision was "tactically and strategically correct.” Musavat and Popular Front, two major political parties leading the Public Chamber, a loose coalition of radi...
