Azerbaijani journalists

Copyright complaints as a tool to pressure Azerbaijan’s independent media

Azerbaijan

September 14, 2026

Following the complaints, Instagram accounts belonging to Abzas Media, Toplum TV and other outlets were blocked.

Azerbaijani activist living in France: 'My father in Baku and I have received threats'

Azerbaijan

September 07, 2026

Ramazan Tagiyev says he is being threatened over critical social media posts.

Opinion: What MEDİA roundtable in Baku revealed about ‘president’s peace strategy’

Azerbaijan-Armenia

May 15, 2026

‘Promoting peace internationally’: a state body regulating the media focused less on the challenges facing journalism and more on how to communicate the president’s message.

Meydan TV case in Azerbaijan: ‘Ilham Aliyev couldn’t silence us – can you?’

Azerbaijan

February 16, 2026

Activist Amrah Tahmazov was forcibly removed from the courtroom after chanting “Freedom for Meydan TV!”

First Azerbaijan–US think-tank forum: participants, significance and criticism

Azerbaijan

November 21, 2025

Azerbaijan’s analysts fall into three groups — exiled experts, Soviet-era researchers and state-funded GONGOs — making independent, influential analysis hard to achieve.

Euronews opens Baku bureau as local journalists say authorities see it as no ‘threat’

Azerbaijan

November 19, 2025

Azerbaijani independent journalists see this as a continuation of the authorities’ crackdown on independent media.