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Date: 18 April 2019Azerbaijani Media Remains in a 'Very Serious Situation'Once again, Azerbaijan has been ranked 166 in the Reporters without Borders yearly World Press Freedom Index.
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Date: 17 April 2019Yet another rapper arrested in Azerbaijan for ‘promoting drug use’Rapper Aydin Huseynov has been detained and sentenced to 30-day administrative detention by the Sumgayit City Court over charges of “encouraging drug use" in his lyrics.
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Date: 17 April 2019Yet another rapper arrested in Azerbaijan for ‘promoting drug use’
Rapper Aydin Huseynov has been detained and sentenced to 30-day administrative detention by the Sumgayit City Court over charges of “encouraging drug use" in his lyrics.
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Date: 15 April 2019Azerbaijani, Armenian foreign ministers meet in MoscowAzerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with his Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanian in Moscow to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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Date: 13 April 2019Blogger Mehman Huseynov’s travel ban liftedHuseynov had tried to leave the country on 9 April but learned he was under a travel ban on orders of the Prosecutor General's Office.
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Date: 9 April 2019Rearrested Bayram Mammadov’s health deterioratingThe health of Bayram Mammadov, who was recently pardoned by the president and later arrested again, deteriorated in jail, local news platforms report.
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Date: 8 April 2019Detained Muslim Union Movement member Anar Jabbarov releasedJabbarov was accused of drug possession but the charges against him were dropped due to lack of evidence.
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Date: 5 April 2019‘Meykhana’ performer Vugar Sada arrested over lyrics allegedly promoting drug useThe arrest comes after one of the performer's songs addressing marijuana became widely popular on social media.
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Date: 4 April 2019New wave of detentions among LGBT in AzerbaijanThe detentions recall a larger wave of arrests in 2017; the European Court of Human Rights has recently begun inquiries into those arrests.
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Date: 3 April 2019Recently pardoned political prisoner Giyas Ibrahimov called to policeJust a few days before, Bayram Mammadov, another youth activist who was recently released from prison, had been re-arrested and sentenced to 30 days in prison for allegedly resisting police.