BBC har en artikkel om menneskerettigheter i Aserbajdsjan.
An Azerbaijani newspaper editor jailed after criticising the government has been given Amnesty International’s award for journalism under threat.
Mr Fatullayev started two newspapers which criticised government officials
At a ceremony in London, the human-rights group urged Azerbaijan to free Eynulla Fatullayev and stop trying “to stifle freedom of expression”.
Mr Fatullayev was sentenced to 30 months in jail for libel in April 2007.
Six months later, he was sentenced to a further six years on terrorism and incitement of ethnic hatred charges.
Amnesty’s UK Director Kate Allen said: “People like Eynulla face constant opposition and great personal risk, simply for exercising their human right to freedom of expression and doing their job as a professional journalist.”
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