IRFS PRESS RELEASE 06 JUNE(AZ/ENG)
Today the Baku Grave Crimes Court held a hearing on the case of Khural newspaper editor-in-chief Avaz Zeynalli. Judge Ramella Allahverdiyeva presided over the hearing. Zeynalli filed a petition to the court, deeming all the charges against him unfounded and declaring his innocence. Zeynalli filed a petition asking the court to change the criminal charges […]
Proposed bill to restrict access to information
IRFS believes the amendments, which prevent citizens and journalists from obtaining financial information about Azerbaijani companies, was introduced because reporters and NGOs uncovered links between local businesses and family members of prominent politicians.
IRFS calls on Hillary Clinton to raise rights issues on upcoming visit
In Azerbaijan, journalists are threatened, attacked and killed with impunity. This must change, says IRFS.
Website editor detained, tortured, lawyer says
Officers also tried to blackmail Nijat Aliyev, telling him that if he did not admit to drug-related charges, he could face more than five years in jail under more serious charges.
IRFS highlights sustained, aggressive suppression of the media
Jailings, smear campaigns, trumped-up charges against journalists and unsolved murders: the free expression situation in Azerbaijan
Twenty-seven IFEX members call for investigation into brutal attacks on journalists
Twenty-seven IFEX members appeal for end to impunity in recent brutal attacks on journalists in Kazakhstan, including near-fatal attack on Luqpan Akhmedyarov in April.
IRFS ANNOUNCEMENT/IRFS PRESS RELEASE 16 APRIL (AZ/ENG)
BIA.AZ FOUNDER SENTENCED TO 3 MONTHS OF PRE-TRIAL DETENTION On April 14th, the Nasimi District Court sentenced Baku Information Agency (Bia.az) founder Sudef Majidli to three months of pre-trial detention, operator of the BIA Ilham Rasulzade told the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety today. According to Rasulzade, Sudef Majidli has been charged under Article […]
IRFS ANNOUNCEMENT/IRFS PRESS RELEASE 09 APRIL(AZ/ENG)
OGTAY GULALIYEV FACES ABUSE AT POLICE OFFICE IN SABIRABAD Kur Civil Society Organization coordinator Ogtay Gulaliyev has faced police abuse at Sabirabad Regional Police Office, reported Turan Information Agency director and Kur Civil Society Organization member Mehman Aliyev, at a press conference yesterday. Gulaliyev was detained by police on April 8 and sentenced to 12 […]
IRFS STATEMENT/IRFS ANNOUNCEMENT/IRFS PRESS RELEASE 03 APREL(AZ/ENG)
INSTITUTE FOR REPORTERS’ FREEDOM AND SAFETY STATEMENT The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) strongly condemns the confiscation of the journalistic equipments of IRFS reporters to Nakhchivan, Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev and Elman Abbasov, who were carrying out their journalistic work at Sadarak Customs Checkpoint. Specifically, based on multiple complaints of residents against customs officers, the […]
Forty-four IFEX members and partners call proposed cyber crimes law a setback to free speech
An open letter by 44 organisations calls Iraq’s proposed Information Technology Crimes law a threat to the fundamental freedoms necessary for the evolution of free speech and a vibrant press. The law will come to vote in the Iraqi Council of Representatives in April.
IRFS STATEMENT/IRFS ANNOUNCEMENT/IRFS PRESS RELEASE 03 APREL(AZ/ENG)
INSTITUTE FOR REPORTERS’ FREEDOM AND SAFETY STATEMENT The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) condemns the violence against Turan Information Agency photographer Etimad Budagov and RFE/RL reporter Nushabe Fatullayeva, and assesses it as an attack on media. Etimad Budagov and Nushaba Fatullayeva were attacked by Baku Executive Power Secretariat head Zulfali Ismayilov and his […]
Three journalists detained for 12 hours
The three journalists, who work for Baku Information Agency, were filing the district police as they collected illegal bribes at a radar checkpoint in Salyan.