"I was frozen and I didn’t know what to do. I only know that my legs moved to the border." Gulnur Kazimova was at a relative's birthday party with her five-year-old son when the warning came. …
"The legal system is not working. Or it is working but as a toy of the government." Emin Milli once planned to become a lawyer in his native Azerbaijan. "Very fast I realized that I…
Under President Ilham Aliyev, the economy of Azerbaijan has expanded spectacularly. An oil boom has fueled a 10 fold increase in the size of its economy since he took power in 2003. But under Aliyev,…
"People started calling my mom a whore, people started calling my father a traitor." Azerbaijan-born journalist and blogger Arzu Geybullayeva has written for major news outlets like Foreign Policy and al-Jazeera. Yet it's her work…
