Secret terror trial transcripts reveal accused's luxury lifestyle
Erol Incedal, who was cleared of plotting Mumbai-style attack in London, told court of royal links through billionaire friends...
View ArticleXi Jinping Holds Talks with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan Both Heads...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China) On December 10, 2015, President Xi Jinping held talks at the Great Hall of the People with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan....
View ArticleAzerbaijan says fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh escalates
Azerbaijan says three of its troops have been killed in the past ten days as the conflict in its separatist region of...
View ArticleMan who jumped White House fence facing charges: Secret Service
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who jumped the White House fence on Thursday, triggering a lockdown of the presidential mansion, was quickly caught and now faces criminal charges, the U.S. Secret Service...
View ArticleAzerbaijan says fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh escalates
Azerbaijan says three of its troops have been killed in the past ten days as the conflict in its separatist region of...
View ArticleMan who jumped White House fence faces criminal charges: Secret Service
(From Reuters) A man who jumped the White House fence on Thursday, triggering a lock-down of the presidential mansion, was quickly caught and now faces criminal charges, the US Secret Service said....
View ArticleAzerbaijan frees top rights activist Leyla Yunus on parole
A court in Azerbaijan on Wednesday ordered release on parole of jailed top rights campaigner Leyla Yunus, citing her deteriorating health less than a month after freeing her activist husband. The move...
View ArticlePress freedom violations recounted in real time January 2015 (RSF - Reporters...
(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) 30.11.2015 - Two journalists attacked in Rajaishahr prison Reporters Without Borders condemns an attack against prisoners of conscience on 28 November in...
View ArticleProsecutor Seeks Seven-Year Jail Term For Azerbaijani Reporter
BAKU -- A prosecutor has asked an Azerbaijani court to sentence journalist Rauf Mirqadirov to seven years in jail in an espionage case. The...
View ArticleFreedom House Welcomes Azerbaijan Democracy Act (Freedom House)
(Source: Freedom House) Freedom House issued the following statement in support of H.R.4264, the Azerbaijan Democracy Act of 2015: 'The Azerbaijan Democracy Act is a much-needed tool to hold the...
View ArticleAzerbaijan says fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh escalates
Azerbaijan says three of its troops have been killed in the past ten days as the conflict in its separatist region of...
View ArticleDispatches: Finally Getting Tough on Azerbaijan (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) Some of Azerbaijan's international partners are finally taking exceptional steps to signal their alarm over the government's serious crackdown on human rights. The...
View ArticleHelsinki Commission Chair Acts To End Human Rights Violations In Azerbaijan...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following years of systematic efforts by the Government of Azerbaijan to eliminate the voices of independent journalists, opposition politicians,...
View ArticleCardin Statement on the Release of Azerbaijani Rights Activist Leyla Yunus...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) Wednesday, December 9, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following...
View ArticleOne dead, 30 missing after Azerbaijan oil rig fire
One person was killed and 30 oil workers were missing on Saturday after the rig they were working on in the Caspian Sea was engulfed by a fire, Azerbaijan’s state energy firm, State Oil Company of...
View ArticleCardin Statement on the Release of Azerbaijani Rights Activist Leyla Yunus...
(Source: Benjamin L Cardin) Wednesday, December 9, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the release of...
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