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Nine journalist was detained in Azerbaijan: to after a search of the editorial office of the independent media Toplum.tv
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The police detained nine cooperation: Toplum.tv and three activists independent publication. They are relative: Tsy said that the detainees were put in a police car and taken away. The security forces said that the search is related to the "investigation of information about the activities of a group of persons."
Eyewitnesses reported that during the search, the police blocked approaches to the building where the editorial office was located and the roadway. Journalists of the Azerbaijani BBC service were also not missed.
Journalist Gulzar Mamedley said in the afternoon that the police surrounded the building where they were cooperated: Toplum TV online telekanal. Toplum TV is an independent news site founded in 2016 by media -junior Aessker Mammadley. This is one of the few media media that remained in the country. The publication illuminates acute topics and provides the air of the opposition.
The Azerbaijan political group “Third Republican Platform” also said that she could not contact three activists - Akif Gurbanov, Ruslan Izatli and Araz Aliyev (the latter also works as a journalist Toplum TV) - and suggested that they were also detained by security forces. The raid occurred against the backdrop of repressions against the publications that remained in Azerbaijan that did not occupy a pro -government line.
Pursuit of journalist: K in Azerbaijan
On November 20, 2023, the security forces detained three cooperation: TZ ABZAS Media: Executive Director Ulvi Hasanla, chief editor Savindzh Vagifkyzy and marketing director Mohammed Kekalov.
On the same day, the editorial office was searched, where they found 40 thousand euros. On this basis, a journalist: OK is accused of smuggling currency. They face 6 to 12 years in prison.
In the ABZAS Media case, police interrogated as a witness: NICs are activated: K and journalist: K, including those who collaborated with the publication.
Abzas Media illuminates corruption, protests and human rights violations in Azerbaijan. In particular, they issued investigations, which states that contracts for the construction of houses in the conquered territories of Nagorno -Karabakh are given relatives: TsAM President Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and other large officials: c. The best agricultural lands are also crossing the Aliyev family.
About 30 Azerbaijani journalist: K and human rights activists: the Azerbaijan authorities called on to stop the persecution of the journalist: K. Similar statements were also made by the special representative of the EU for Human Rights Imon Gilmore, Human Rights Watch and a number of human rights organizations.
On November 27, the head of the Internet telekanal of Kanal-13 Aziza Orudzhev was detained in Azerbaijan. He is accused of unauthorized construction of the house.
On November 30, the journalist Abzas Media Nargiz Absalamova was detained. She was sentenced to three months of preliminary imprisonment in the case of the "smuggling of foreign currency."
In early December, the director of the independent YouTube channel Kanal-11 Teimur Kerimov was detained in Azerbaijan. Kanal-11 claims that Kerimov was persecuted from anti-corruption investigations.
In December, by three months of preliminary imprisonment, the journalist of Abzas Media Nargiz Absalamova was sentenced . Later, Hafiz Babali, another journalist who worked with the independent publication of Abzas Media, was detained on charges of smuggling.
In January 2024, ABZAS Media journalism Elnar Gasimov was allegedly arrested due to suspicion of smuggling. Since November 2023, it was the ninth detention of a journalist: to in connection with repressions against independent media in Azerbaijan.