Who uses compromising porn and for what purpose?

Baku/16.08.22/Turan: A video containing footage of intimate relationships between two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, filmed at their workplace, was distributed on social networks. This video allegedly was filmed in 2014.

This is not the first case of dissemination of pictures and videos of intimate content in Azerbaijan. This form of compromise has previously been used against dissident and independent-minded people, journalists, public and political figures and members of their families. Later, several government officials also became victims of the war of compromising evidence. Thus, in April last year, a video was circulated on social networks, which depicted the unethical actions of the chairman of the Khatai regional organization of the ruling “Yeni Azerbaijan” party, ex-deputy Husseinbala Miralamov, towards his assistant in his office. In August last year, former presidential aide Ali Hasanov wrote on his Twitter account that he was being blackmailed with a secretly taken photo. A month later, intimate pictures of the chairman of the Binagadi regional organization of the New Azerbaijan Party, Ramiz Geyushov, circulated on social networks. Now the intimate relationship at the workplace of two officials has become the subject of discussion.

Who distributes these images and for what purpose?

Lawyer Aslan Ismailov answers these and other questions in the “Difficult Question” program.

According to him, the first distribution of intimate videos occurred in Azerbaijan in 2013, when investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was put under pressure, threatening to distribute intimate videos.

“The fact that from time to time flashes of an ongoing war of compromising evidence flare up in the country is clearly the fault of the authorities.  If at one time the authorities had stopped this, today there would be no dirty hunting for compromising evidence, we would not hear the speeches of some bloggers who are abroad, containing obscene language and insults,” the lawyer believes.

In his opinion, no matter how unsightly the acts of the victims of the war of compromising evidence are, the hunt for intimate compromising evidence and its use is an even dirtier business.

“I have no doubt that the authorities, having authorized the dirty attack on Khadija Ismayilova, did not achieve anything. On the contrary, by doing so, "Pandora's box" was opened. Now hunters for compromising evidence have switched to officials. We have not yet forgotten about the scandalous pictures of Ramiz Geyushov, and how the intimate relationship at the workplace of two officials becomes the subject of discussion. One can only guess how far all this can go,” Ismailov said.

According to the lawyer, in politics, the war of compromising evidence is a common and even inevitable thing, but turning the hunt for compromising evidence into voyeurism is unacceptable.