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Azeri MP calls on colleagues to adopt law to punish "immoral journalists"
Azadliq, Baku
29 Dec 04
Text of unattributed report by Azerbaijani newspaper Azadliq on 29
December headlined "Calal Aliyev has issued a fatwa to destroy the
free press"
[Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's uncle] Calal Aliyev spoke in the
parliament yesterday for the first time after the death of [his
brother ex-President] Heydar Aliyev. At the beginning of his speech,
he accused the opposition of playing into the hands of the Armenians
and started scolding the press in a specific way:
[Aliyev] Immoral people who call themselves opposition and journalists
who number over 60,000 write whatever they think. [Azerbaijani
President] Ilham Aliyev has stated that if Armenia is Russia's
outpost, who shall we negotiate with? Is it not enough? They are not
informing people about this. Is this what you are doing? They have
done a lot of things. They write whatever immoral things they may
imagine about worthy people, the president and the late [president].
Who will fight this?
They are a hundred times more hostile to Azerbaijan than the
Armenians. One cannot find such mean and immoral people who are
enemies of their own nation among these 8m people and the world's
population of more than 6 billion. Who should wipe them out? We need
to fight them resolutely. We need to punish them in courts based on
the existing laws. I have done so myself. I have filed lawsuits
against Yeni Musavat, Azadliq and the newspaper of that immoral tar
seller - Alternativ.
They were found guilty and admitted their mistakes. Do the same thing,
why are you not doing so? We need to include it into the agenda and
draw up a law. It is necessary to put an end to this unbridled
immorality under the guise of journalism.
Azadliq, Baku
29 Dec 04
Text of unattributed report by Azerbaijani newspaper Azadliq on 29
December headlined "Calal Aliyev has issued a fatwa to destroy the
free press"
[Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's uncle] Calal Aliyev spoke in the
parliament yesterday for the first time after the death of [his
brother ex-President] Heydar Aliyev. At the beginning of his speech,
he accused the opposition of playing into the hands of the Armenians
and started scolding the press in a specific way:
[Aliyev] Immoral people who call themselves opposition and journalists
who number over 60,000 write whatever they think. [Azerbaijani
President] Ilham Aliyev has stated that if Armenia is Russia's
outpost, who shall we negotiate with? Is it not enough? They are not
informing people about this. Is this what you are doing? They have
done a lot of things. They write whatever immoral things they may
imagine about worthy people, the president and the late [president].
Who will fight this?
They are a hundred times more hostile to Azerbaijan than the
Armenians. One cannot find such mean and immoral people who are
enemies of their own nation among these 8m people and the world's
population of more than 6 billion. Who should wipe them out? We need
to fight them resolutely. We need to punish them in courts based on
the existing laws. I have done so myself. I have filed lawsuits
against Yeni Musavat, Azadliq and the newspaper of that immoral tar
seller - Alternativ.
They were found guilty and admitted their mistakes. Do the same thing,
why are you not doing so? We need to include it into the agenda and
draw up a law. It is necessary to put an end to this unbridled
immorality under the guise of journalism.