Baku/25/08/17/Turan: The New York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) criticized the detention of Mehman Aliyev, head of the independent news agency Turan, and called on Azerbaijani authorities to immediately release him.
"Azerbaijan must stop this politically motivated persecution of Mehman Aliyev and the Turan news agency," said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova. "Authorities have systematically jailed journalists and squeezed out independent media outlets by abusing the criminal code," she said.
In turn, the Co-chairman of the US Helsinki Commission, Senator Ben Cardin expressed concern over Aliyev"s detention. "I am extremely worried. Azerbaijanis deserve freedom of the press and thought," he wrote in his microblog.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Dieser, also wrote on his Twitter that he is very concerned about reports of Mehman Aliyev"s detention. --06B--
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