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Azerbaijan: In Solidarity with Khadija Ismayilova
March 16, 2012
Azerbaijan: In Solidarity with Khadija Ismayilova
The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) condemns the blackmail and continued harassment of one of the few independent investigative journalists working in Azerbaijan, Khadija Ismayilova. The most recent episode in the harassment campaign involves a one minute film of an intimate nature being posted on the internet on Wednesday March 14). A week earlier Ismayilova said she... More...
Iranian activist dies at father's funeral
June 2, 2011
Iranian activist dies at father's funeral
Interference by the security forces is thought to have led to the death of opposition activist Haleh Sahabi at her father's funeral. Haleh Sahabi had been let out of prison to attend the funeral of her father, Ezatollah Sahabi, himself a prominent political activist. A journalist present at the... More...
Iranian activist dies at father's funeral
June 2, 2011
Iranian activist dies at father's funeral
Interference by the security forces is thought to have led to the death of opposition activist Haleh Sahabi at her father's funeral. Haleh Sahabi had been let out of prison to attend the funeral of her father, Ezatollah Sahabi, himself a prominent political activist. A journalist present at the... More...
Amnesty International awarded Eynulla Fatullayev
May 31, 2011
Amnesty International awarded Eynulla Fatullayev
“Amnesty champions women, children and oppressed minorities, fights torture, campaigns against the death penalty, defends prisoners of conscience and the rights of refugees, and calls oppressive regimes to account. Its inspiring vision is of a world in which every person enjoys the freedoms of the... More...
Reporters Without Border: At Least A Dozen Journalists Attacked By Police In Tbilisi
May 30, 2011
Reporters Without Border: At Least A Dozen Journalists Attacked By Police In Tbilisi
Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the violence used by the Georgian security forces in the early hours of May 26 against journalists covering an anti-government demonstration in Tbilisi. “According to our sources, at least a dozen journalists were attacked or detained by the police,... More...
Eynulla Fatullayev Released After Four Years In Prison
May 27, 2011
Eynulla Fatullayev Released After Four Years In Prison
Eynulla Fatullayev, a journalist and newspaper editor who had turned into one of the symbols of Azerbaijan's crackdown on freedom of expression, walked free today after having spent some four years in jail. Fatullayev was released along with dozens of other inmates after being pardoned by... More...
Journalists Detained, Beaten and Photo and Video Cameras Confiscated During Police Raid at Protest Rally
May 26, 2011
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Journalists have been injured during the police raid at protest rally at Rustaveli Avenue early morning May 26.  Law enforcers detained, beat, verbally insulted journalists and confiscated their photo and video cameras. For example the police special forces members beat Netgazeti... More...
Nino Burjanadze Apologizes to Netgazeti Journalist
May 25, 2011
Nino Burjanadze Apologizes to Netgazeti Journalist
Leader of the Public Assembly Nino Burjanadze personally apologized to the Netgazeti journalist Tamaz Kupreishvili for the incident that happened between her son and the journalist, in front of the public broadcaster building after the clash between the protesters and police on May 22. According... More...
Public Broadcaster Statement on the Protest Rallies
May 24, 2011
Public Broadcaster Statement on the Protest Rallies
Public Broadcaster reacts to the protest rallies underway in front of its building and states that despite the attempts of the opposition forces to accuse the public broadcaster in biased reporting, the TV-channel does not intend to become an object of manipulation for any political group,... More...
June 13 Supreme Court to Consider Journalist Fatullayev’s Appeal
May 23, 2011
June 13 Supreme Court to Consider Journalist Fatullayev’s Appeal
On June 13, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of Judge Hafiz Nasibov will consider the appeal of the journalist Eynullah Fatullayev. The journalist's lawyer, Elchin Sadigov, told Turan about this. According to him, the appeal was filed in connection with the decision of the... More...
Georgia: Violence Against Journalists
May 23, 2011
Georgia: Violence Against Journalists
Journalists are being detained, blocked from recording, insulted and journalistic materials are being taken away from at the protest rallies started in Tbilisi and Batumi May 21. May 22 Netgazeti journalist Tamaz Kupreishvili was hit in the stomach with a flag-stick by Anzor Bitsadze, son of the... More...
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