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Azerbaijan – Embassy cable confirmed government harassment of RFE/RL
Cable 09BAKU6 A classified cable to the US State Department from the US chargé d’affaires in Baku, Donald Lu, on 6 January 2009, released by WikiLeaks on 30 August, voiced concern about the Azerbaijani government’s harassment of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The cable said the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was threatening to cut the satellite connection between RFE/RL’s office in Azerbaijan and its headquarters in Prague. The threat appeared to be illegal because (…)
Azerbaijan – Stepping up harassment of media, Nakhchivan expels Azerbaijani reporter
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the unacceptable escalation in harassment of the media by the authorities in Nakhchivan, an autonomous Azerbaijani exclave between Armenia and Iran, especially last week’s expulsion of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reporter Yafez Hasanov (Яфез Xасанов). Hasanov was abducted on 31 August by three unidentified men in plain-clothes using the kind of car that government security officials normally drive. They drove him to the Iranian border and told him to (…)
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Azerbaijan – European Court to examine case of two bloggers who were unjustly jailed
This month, the European Court of Human Rights will examine the complaint that Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade filed in January claiming that their detention from July 2009 to November 2010 and their conviction on trumped-up charges violated articles 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The two bloggers are seeking official recognition that the Azerbaijani authorities violated their rights. Although they are now free, their release is only (…)
Azerbaijan – Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent
Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev, the correspondent of the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in Sharur, in the north of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, has been charged by the district prosecutor’s office with “diverting electricity” under article 189-1 of the criminal code. Sanan Pashayev, the official in charge of the investigation, made Mehdiyev signed an undertaking that he would not leave the Sharur district. The charge carries a maximum fine of 3,000 manat (2,600 euros), which (…)
Azerbaijan – Journalist hounded in autonomous republic, two colleagues attacked
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev, a correspondent of the Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, has repeatedly been harassed by officials for the past week. It is the latest example of the intolerance that the local authorities show towards the media in Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave between Armenia and Iran. “This harassment of Mehdiyev on the most ridiculous pretexts must stop at once, and the (…)
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Azerbaijan – Parliament cancels creation of information ombudsman
Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned a parliamentary vote on 21 December that overwhelmingly overturned a plan to create an ombudsman for news and information. With just one dissenting vote, parliament amended its constitutional law, adopted in 2005 on the advice of the Council of Europe, with the effect of cancelling the creation of both an ombudsman and of an institution with the role of addressing issues relating to public access to information. As a result of neither of (…)
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Azerbaijan – Parliament cancels creation of information ombudsman
Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned a parliamentary vote on 21 December that overwhelmingly overturned a plan to create an ombudsman for news and information. With just one dissenting vote, parliament amended its constitutional law, adopted in 2005 on the advice of the Council of Europe, with the effect of cancelling the creation of both an ombudsman and of an institution with the role of addressing issues relating to public access to information. As a result of neither of (…)
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Azerbaijan – Supreme court rejects imprisoned journalist’s appeal
The supreme court yesterday rejected imprisoned newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev’s appeal against a 30-month jail sentence on a clearly trumped-up charge of illegal possession of heroin while in prison. Imposed on 6 July, the sentence was confirmed by a Baku appeal court on 5 November. The journalist’s lawyer, Elchin Sadigov, described yesterday’s ruling as political. He had requested Fatullayev’s immediate release, a retrial, and compliance with a European Court of Human Rights ruling (…)
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Azerbaijan – Interview with the newly-released video blogger and netizen Adnan Hajizade
Newly-released video blogger and netizen Adnan Hajizade has told Reporters Without Borders in an exclusive interview he is still finding it hard to assimilate the fact that he is “finally a free man” again but he intends to continue blogging because “every opinion counts.” Interviewed on 25 November, he stressed the importance of international pressure in obtaining his release on 18 November (read the article). But he added that the real reason why he was freed and why he was arrested in the (…)
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Azerbaijan – Second blogger freed, one day after his colleague
The blogger Emin Milli was released today by a Baku appeal court, one day after his friend and fellow blogger, Adnan Hajizade, was freed. The court ruled that the remaining 14 months of his 30-month jail sentence were “suspended.” Milli and Hajizade were arrested on a trumped charge of hooliganism in July 2009 because a satirical video that had been posted online. They were sentenced in November 2009 to 30 and 24 months in prison respectively. Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call (…)
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OSCE, Office in Baku launches training sessions for journalists and press officers
BAKU, The OSCE Office in Baku, with the support of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration, launched a series of training sessions for journalists and government press officers today.
