Health of imprisoned journalist Mirza Sakit seriously deteriorating
SOURCE: Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS), Baku **Updates IFEX alerts of 3 and 2 August and 26 June 2006; please note that the journalist’s name previously appears as “Sakit Zakhidov” and “Sakit Mirza Zahidov”** (IRFS/IFEX) – Imprisoned “Azadlig” newspaper journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit’s health has seriously deteriorated. Rana Zahidova, the wife of the imprisoned […]
Radio Liberty journalist released
(IRFS/IFEX) – Ilgar Nasibov, the Nakhchivan Radio Liberty correspondent who was on 6 December 2007 sentenced to three months of imprisonment, has been released. Nasibov himself told the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety that the three-month prison sentence handed down to him on the basis of Nakhchivan City Police Department Chief Sabuhi Novruzov’s legal […]
Radio journalist sentenced to prison on slander charge, faces risk of torture
(IRFS/IFEX) – IRFS severely condemns the arrest and conviction of Radio Liberty correspondent Ilgar Nasibov, who works in Azerbaijan’s autonomous enclave of Nakhchivan. At 3:00 p.m. (local time) on 6 December 2007, Nasibov was called to the Nakhchivan City Court where Judge Ulvi Ismayilov sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment. Nasibov’s wife, Malahet Nasibova, told […]
Prison sentence not the answer to unethical journalism, says IRFS
(IRFS/IFEX) – The following is a 22 November 2007 IRFS press release: ANALYSIS: WHY DEFEND NAZIM GULIYEV? 22 November 2007, Baku, Azerbaijan – In recent days, the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety has come under fire for including “Ideal” newspaper chief editor Nazim Guliyev in its list of wrongfully imprisoned journalists in Azerbaijan and […]
Editor assaulted, detained pending trial for “causing minor bodily harm” and “hooliganism”; distribution of “Khural” newspaper prevented
(IRFS/IFEX) – On 11 November 2007, at the Yasamal District Court, presided by judge Tahir Ismayilov, a hearing on the pre-trial detention of “Azadlig” newspaper’s chief editor Genimet Zahid was conducted. Zahid was brought to the court at about 8 p.m. (local time). At the end of the over one-hour long court process, which was […]
As elections approach, 27 IFEX members urge president to allow erection of memorial to slain journalist
(IRFS/IFEX) – The following is a joint letter from 27 IFEX members to President Ilham Aliyev: President Ilham Aliyev: We the undersigned support the efforts of civil society organizations in Azerbaijan to create a memorial to slain journalist Elmar Huseynov, and we encourage your government to support this initiative by granting permission for the erection […]
Magazine editor faces libel suit; journalist seeks asylum for fear of harassment
(IRFS/IFEX) – On 17 October 2007, in the press center of the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS), “Korrupsiya va Jamiyyet” Magazine Chief Editor Mammad Ahmedoglu conducted a press conference on the pressure his publication is facing as well as pending lawsuits. Ahmedoglu said that ethnically Nigerian Great Britain citizen Adeola Agbabiaka filed a […]