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COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS CONDEMNS AZERBAIJAN
Panorama.am
22/02/2012
The annual report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
has been released titled "Attacks on the Press in 2011".
The report notes mass violations of the rights of journalists in Syria,
Belarus, Azerbaijan.
According to CPJ official website four years after Eynulla Fatullayev
was imprisoned on a series of fabricated charges, and more than a
year after the European Court of Human Rights ordered his immediate
release, the editor finally walked free. In an interview with CPJ,
Fatullayev praised the international community for its sustained
support. Attacks against domestic journalists covering sensitive
subjects continued with impunity. Freelance reporter Rafiq Tagi, who
wrote critically about Islamist politics and government policies,
died after being stabbed on a Baku street. Two reporters for the
pro-opposition newspaper Azadlyg were beaten in reprisal for their
work, while the editor of the independent newspaper Khuralwas jailed
in late year on retaliatory charges. Hostility toward international
reporters was on the rise: Members of a Swedish television crew working
on a human rights documentary were deported; a U.S. freelancer and a
British researcher were assaulted; and a photojournalist was denied
entry based on her Armenian ethnicity.
The fatal stabbing of Tagi in November underscored a year of heightened
violence against local and international journalists.
Amanda Erickson, a U.S. freelance contributor to The Washington Post
and The New York Times, and Celia Davies, a British staffer at the
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, were attacked outside
their Baku apartment building in June. Ramin Deko and Seimur Khaziyev,
reporters for the pro-opposition Azadlyg, were beaten 10 days apart
in early spring. And assailants targeted the home of Idrak Abbasov,
a journalist with the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety,
in September. The attacks are unsolved.
Panorama.am
22/02/2012
The annual report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
has been released titled "Attacks on the Press in 2011".
The report notes mass violations of the rights of journalists in Syria,
Belarus, Azerbaijan.
According to CPJ official website four years after Eynulla Fatullayev
was imprisoned on a series of fabricated charges, and more than a
year after the European Court of Human Rights ordered his immediate
release, the editor finally walked free. In an interview with CPJ,
Fatullayev praised the international community for its sustained
support. Attacks against domestic journalists covering sensitive
subjects continued with impunity. Freelance reporter Rafiq Tagi, who
wrote critically about Islamist politics and government policies,
died after being stabbed on a Baku street. Two reporters for the
pro-opposition newspaper Azadlyg were beaten in reprisal for their
work, while the editor of the independent newspaper Khuralwas jailed
in late year on retaliatory charges. Hostility toward international
reporters was on the rise: Members of a Swedish television crew working
on a human rights documentary were deported; a U.S. freelancer and a
British researcher were assaulted; and a photojournalist was denied
entry based on her Armenian ethnicity.
The fatal stabbing of Tagi in November underscored a year of heightened
violence against local and international journalists.
Amanda Erickson, a U.S. freelance contributor to The Washington Post
and The New York Times, and Celia Davies, a British staffer at the
Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, were attacked outside
their Baku apartment building in June. Ramin Deko and Seimur Khaziyev,
reporters for the pro-opposition Azadlyg, were beaten 10 days apart
in early spring. And assailants targeted the home of Idrak Abbasov,
a journalist with the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety,
in September. The attacks are unsolved.