Azerbaijan has ranked 151st on this year’s World Press Freedom Index — the 29th worst in the world. On this week’s episode of the Caucasus Digest, OC Media speaks to Arzu Geybulla, a journalist and media expert, and Orkhan Mammad, an editor at Meydan TV, about how Baku’s policies serve to constrict media freedom in Azerbaijan or even force journalists into exile.

Read more:

• Aliyev signs law to muzzle press
• Censorship and violence: the challenges to press freedom in the Caucasus in 2022

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