Since yesterday evening all cable TV channels in Azerbaijan stopped broadcasting the Turkish FOX TV. The reason is the irony of the leading channel on the appointment of Mehriban Aliyeva, Vice-President of Azerbaijan.
The owners of the cable channels do not give any clear explanation of the stop of broadcasting FOX TV. In turn, the representative of Azerbaijan National Television and Radio said that cable channels are free to decide what to broadcast on television.
A year ago, cable TV channels excluded from their packet channel Kanal D after the printed edition of this media holding criticized Azerbaijani authorities for prosecution of the journalist Khadija Ismaylova.-06D--
Politics
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The 27 member states of the European Union will discuss the situation in Georgia, including the possibility of revoking the visa-free regime with this country, at the upcoming Foreign Affairs Council meeting on December 16, the EU Ambassador to Georgia, Pawel Herczynski, said on Friday.
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Human rights defender Rufat Safarov appealed to Ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva due to bad attitude of SIZO-1 staff towards accused Fazil Gasymov. After that, the situation changed for the better, in particular, Gasymov was allowed to communicate with his brother for more than two hours without the guard's supervision. Rufat Safarov, head of the human rights organisation ‘Protection Line’, told Turan.
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The trial of Famil Khalilov, an activist, disabled first-group citizen, accused of drug trafficking, continued in Baku's Serious Crimes Court on Wednesday.
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On November 28, the Tbilisi City Court ruled to extradite Afgan Sadigov, the head of the website Azel.TV, to Azerbaijan. This was reported by his wife Sevinj Sadigova. The defense will appeal the court's decision.
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