Baku / 13.12.17 / Turan:On 12 December the New York-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists circulated an annual report according to which 262 journalists in the world were arrested for their activities. Last year's figure was 259 people. Azerbaijan is among the countries where many journalists are arrested, currently there are 10 people. However, the authorities say that no journalist in Azerbaijan is punished for their professional activities, the report says. The organization notes that approximately 75% of journalists are detained on charges of anti-state activities or complicity in a terrorist threat. According to CPJ, the increase in the number of arrested journalists means that the international community can not resolve the global crisis in the field of press freedom. -16D-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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