freedom of speech

Prison for actions against the sovereignty of Armenia: project of the Ministry of Justice

Politics in Armenia

October 24, 2022

According to political scientist David Stepanyan, the project is more than relevant, since many threats to the sovereignty of Armenia have recently arisen.

International Freedom House group appeals to Armenian PM to hold in-person press talks

Freedom House

July 09, 2022

Freedom House Address to the Prime Minister of Armenia: the international human rights has welcomed the decision to decriminalize grave insults, but called for the resumption of in-person press conferences

“Freedom of speech is limited” - Amnesty International annual report on media in Armenia

Armenia

March 31, 2022

Amnesty International Armenia 2021-2022 report: post-war political crisis, IDPs from Karabakh, prisoners of war and freedom of speech in focus

“Media law” in Azerbaijan: will it become even more difficult to talk about Karabakh?

Azerbaijan

January 20, 2022

Tightening of state control in Azerbaijan threatens the already sensitive coverage of ​​conflict, journalists say

Armenian media organisations accuse gov’t of trying to restrict freedom of speech

August 22, 2019

The Armenian Ministry of Justice wants to introduce a prison sentence for "the spread of hate speech"

Director of an internet TV channel in Azerbaijan sentenced to 6 years in prison

December 15, 2017

Aziz Orujov, a journalist and director of “Channel-13” has been convicted on charges of illegal entrepreneurship

All tax sanctions imposed on Turan news agency cancelled

September 17, 2017

Azerbaijan’s oldest independent news agency will soon resume operations

Mehman Aliyev, Director of ‘Turan’ news agency has been released

September 11, 2017

The Court released him from custody and placed him under house arrest

Director of oldest independent news agency in Azerbaijan detained

August 26, 2017

The Turan News agency announced that it has ceased operations for an undefined period of time

Criminal case against ‘Turan’ independent news agency launched in Azerbaijan

August 11, 2017

The news agency flatly denies alleged tax evasion

Second anniversary of journalist Rasim Aliyev’s murder marked in Azerbaijan

August 09, 2017

JAMnews photo-report from the commemoration ceremony

Another opposition media figure sentenced in Azerbaijan

July 24, 2017

Faik Amirli, Director of Azadlig (Freedom) newspaper, receives fine and prison sentence

South Ossetia: “We don’t usually receive medical exams, because our doctors have been fired”

July 16, 2017

Inmates go on an indefinite strike

Azerbaijani government to provide free housing to journalists

May 19, 2017

The second ‘Journalists’ House’ will be commissioned ahead of National Press Day

Baku Court orders closure of previously blocked websites

May 12, 2017

Defense is going to challenge the ruling

Another journalist arrested in Azerbaijan

May 03, 2017

The journalist’s lawyer termed his arrest as ‘an attack on the freedom of speech’

Access to ‘unreliable websites’ hampered in Azerbaijan

March 29, 2017

Government denies its involvement