Azerbaijan: Newspaper facing eviction causes call for press freedom
Posted by Allie Judson on November 16, 2006 at 3:31 PM
The Azerbaijan opposition newspaper Azadliq that faced eviction from it’s down town offices is now being offered an inflated rent by the government. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe officials are calling for Azerbaijan officials to do more to protect the country’s journalists and freedom of the press.
The group is also urging the government to find and prosecute the murder of opposition magazine editor Elmar Huseinov, who was killed in his Baku apartment last year.
"We think that the recent events demonstrate a worsening of the overall condition of independent mass media in Azerbaijan," said the statement, read by Joan Polaschik, chief of the political and economic section of the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan.
Other complaints about Azerbaijan media freedom include the government restriction of local stations playing Western European and American broadcast stations being played on the radio. Banned stations include BBC, Radio Liberty, and Voice of America.
Source:International Herald Tribune
"We think that the recent events demonstrate a worsening of the overall condition of independent mass media in Azerbaijan," said the statement, read by Joan Polaschik, chief of the political and economic section of the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan.
Other complaints about Azerbaijan media freedom include the government restriction of local stations playing Western European and American broadcast stations being played on the radio. Banned stations include BBC, Radio Liberty, and Voice of America.
Source:International Herald Tribune
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