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Azerbaijan – Unfair Lobbying and Trials against Journalists in Azerbaijan
Downoad in PDF Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the harsh action the Azerbaijani regime is taking against its critics in the run-up to the presidential election this autumn, and distances itself from dubious attempts to create an anti-European mood in the country and thus weaken the opposition. One example of this is a supposed “study” currently in circulation on the decline of values in Europe, which claims the support of human rights organisations like Reporters Without Borders. (…)
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Azerbaijan – Unfair Lobbying and Trials against Journalists in Azerbaijan
Downoad in PDF Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the harsh action the Azerbaijani regime is taking against its critics in the run-up to the presidential election this autumn, and distances itself from dubious attempts to create an anti-European mood in the country and thus weaken the opposition. One example of this is a supposed “study” currently in circulation on the decline of values in Europe, which claims the support of human rights organisations like Reporters Without Borders. (…)
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Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan’s detained journalists must be released
Four journalists wrongly held in prison for many months appeared in court in Baku yesterday in three separate cases. The trial of Hilal Mammadov, held in custody since June last year, opened before the serious crimes court in the Azeri capital. In addition, new hearings were held in the cases of Khayal TV journalists Vugar Gonagov and Zaur Guliyev, behind bars since March last year, and of Avaz Zeynalli, editor of the daily Khural who has been in prison since October 2011. Reporters Without (…)
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Iran – Correspondent for Iranian media gets presidential pardon
The journalist Anar Bayramli was one of a total 87 detainees who were released under a presidential pardon issued on 26 December to mark the New Year. The correspondent of several Iranian media critical of the Azerbaijani government, he was arrested in February 2012 on a trumped-up drug charge and had been due for release next February. 02.08.2012 – Court reduces sentence of correspondent for Iranian media The Baku Appeal Court today reduced a two-year prison sentence imposed on Anar (…)
Azerbaijan – Two-month detention order for two journalists arrested in northern town
Reporters Without Borders condemns the two-month pre-trial detention order that a court in the Baku district of Nasimi issued on 22 March for two of the four journalists arrested in the northern town of Quba on 13 March over a YouTube video that triggered major protests and clashes with the police in Quba (see below). The two journalists – Vugar Gonagov, the executive director of Khayal TV, and Zaur Guliyev, the station’s editor in chief – are facing up to three years in prison on charges of (…)
Azerbaijan – Four journalists arrested over Quba riots
Reporters Without Borders deplores the arrests on 13 March of three employees of the television station Khayal TV — the executive director, Vugar Gonagov, the editor, Zaur Guliyev, and Zaur Mustafayev, the head of public relations — as well as Jamil Mammadli, a reporter with the Polygon news agency. All are accused of being implicated in the riots in the northern town of Quba in early March. “These arrests highlight the predicament the authorities find themselves in over the disturbances in (…)
