Azerbaijan’s free expression crackdown intensifies in run-up to election / Institute for Reporter's Freedom and Safety. Baku : Institute for Reporter's Freedom and Safety, 2013 ; Halle (Saale) : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2013
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In March, Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov, and Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov, filed two parallel defamation lawsuits against Azadliq newspaper editor-in-chief Ganimat Zahid. The two ministers appealed to the court over...
On 12 April, the head of the Imishli District Executive Power, Vilyam Hajiyev, filed a defamation lawsuit with the Sabail District Court against the online newspaper venteninfo.az. The lawsuit was based on the article titled “Businessman arrested beca...
On 15 April, Vilyam Hajiyev filed another defamation lawsuit, this time against the website mia.az, based on an article titled “700,000 AZN debt scandal of the chief executive: Vilyam Hajiyev questioned at the Department for Combating Organized Crime....