April 5, as co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group meet in Vienna, both Armenia and Azerbaijan are encouraged to return to the negotiation table ending hostilities and respecting the ceasefire agreement.
April 2, clashes erupt as ceasefire violated on the frontline between Armenia and Azerbaijan. After a night of gunfire and heavy shelling, one resident of Tartar was reported killed, and one wounded.
April 1, Azerbaijan Bar Association disbars one lawyer, reprimands another and warns the third one.
Detained at the Haydar Aliyev International Airport, Aylisli was held for 12 hours on March 30. Aylisli, was traveling to Venice for an International Festival of Literature.
Court in Baku commuted Aliyev's 7.5years to a suspended 5 year sentence.
A week after an edition of the popular television program News Of The Week With Dmitry Kiselyov, the Kremlin's lead propagandist, portrayed RFE/RL journalists as spies conspiring against Russia, its Moscow bureau administrator approached at her home by two unknown men seeking her personal information.
RFE/RL editor in chief Nenad Pejic welcomes release of political prisoners but adds "Khadija should have bee among them".
Families and friends comment on the release of their loved ones while international rights organizations are on alert.
President Ilham Aliyev signs a decree to pardon a number of prisoners.
“This is about a government that is abusing its power to silence journalists like Khadija, as well as other critics of the ruling regime,” Clooney told RFE/RL in an email conversation March 15.
AzadliqRadiosu spoke to Elmira Ismayilova, mother of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested on December 5, 2014 and sentenced to 7.5 years in jail on September 1.
The roads leading to Nardaran are sealed off with concrete stones. All entrance and exit points are under control. Only residents are allowed in. The residents continue to suffer from cut electricity.
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