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BLOOMBERG PHOTOJOURNALIST DEPORTED FROM BAKU BECAUSE OF HER ARMENIAN ORIGIN
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 28, 2011
PanARMENIAN.Net - In the evening of June 28, Bloomberg news agency
photojournalist Diana Markosyan was deported to Istanbul from Baku,
contact.az reported, citing Turan.
"I'm very surprised over the incident. For 3 weeks, we've been
negotiating with Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry requesting to allow me
entrance to Baku. A person in charge asked for 10 days to settle the
formalities. He further requested a number of documents including an
official letter from Bloomberg, which was provided. Upon receiving a
verbal confirmation allowing my arrival, I traveled to Baku airport,
where I was refused entrance because of my Armenian origin, although
I've never been to Armenia. The Foreign Ministry representative
said he's unable to help me. I would understand it, but why promise
something you can't deliver?" the photojournalist said in a phone
conversation with Turan.
According to RFE/RL Azeri service, on June 28, Diana Markosyan was
detained at Baku airport.
Emin Huseynov, director of Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety,
who's been in contact with Markosyan, stated that Markosyan came to
Baku in the early hours of 28 June, but was not permitted to go out
of the airport. "Markosyan is dual citizen of U.S. and Russia.
She came to Baku with her Russian passport. Her documents are all
in order."
Elkhan Polukhov, head of the press office for the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, stated that Markosyan did not have accreditation. "She sent
her documents, presented herself. Bloomberg directors as well as
Diana herself were told that her visit here would not be possible,
the accreditation cannot go through - because problems may arise in
providing her safety here. It was suggested that she be replaced by
another journalist."
Photos taken by Markosyan have been published in newspapers such
as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and The
Washington Post.
On 18 April 2011 Swedish journalists Charlie Laprevote, My Rohwedder
Street and Charlotta Wijkstrom were detained and deported from Baku,
having come there to film a documentary about freedom of expression
in Azerbaijan.
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 28, 2011
PanARMENIAN.Net - In the evening of June 28, Bloomberg news agency
photojournalist Diana Markosyan was deported to Istanbul from Baku,
contact.az reported, citing Turan.
"I'm very surprised over the incident. For 3 weeks, we've been
negotiating with Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry requesting to allow me
entrance to Baku. A person in charge asked for 10 days to settle the
formalities. He further requested a number of documents including an
official letter from Bloomberg, which was provided. Upon receiving a
verbal confirmation allowing my arrival, I traveled to Baku airport,
where I was refused entrance because of my Armenian origin, although
I've never been to Armenia. The Foreign Ministry representative
said he's unable to help me. I would understand it, but why promise
something you can't deliver?" the photojournalist said in a phone
conversation with Turan.
According to RFE/RL Azeri service, on June 28, Diana Markosyan was
detained at Baku airport.
Emin Huseynov, director of Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety,
who's been in contact with Markosyan, stated that Markosyan came to
Baku in the early hours of 28 June, but was not permitted to go out
of the airport. "Markosyan is dual citizen of U.S. and Russia.
She came to Baku with her Russian passport. Her documents are all
in order."
Elkhan Polukhov, head of the press office for the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, stated that Markosyan did not have accreditation. "She sent
her documents, presented herself. Bloomberg directors as well as
Diana herself were told that her visit here would not be possible,
the accreditation cannot go through - because problems may arise in
providing her safety here. It was suggested that she be replaced by
another journalist."
Photos taken by Markosyan have been published in newspapers such
as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and The
Washington Post.
On 18 April 2011 Swedish journalists Charlie Laprevote, My Rohwedder
Street and Charlotta Wijkstrom were detained and deported from Baku,
having come there to film a documentary about freedom of expression
in Azerbaijan.