Consideration of a civil claim of the convicted editor of " Khural" newspaper, Avaz Zeynally, against the Press Council in the Narimanov District Court, completed today.
Zeynally asked to find illegal the decision adopted by the Press Council in September 2011 on declaring the "Khural" as a "racketeering newspaper", and its inclusion in the "black list".
The plaintiff saw in this damage to the business reputation of the newspaper, and asked the court to make a particular decision with regard to the Press Council about the abuse of power.
However, the court rejected the claim. Now Zeynally intends to appeal the court's decision in the higher courts of the European Court of Human Rights.
Zeynally was arrested in October 2011 on the basis of the complaint of extortion by the claim of then MP Guler Ahmadova. Later Ahmadova herself was arrested, and is under investigation for fraud; Zeynally has been sentenced to nine years in prison for extortion and tax evasion and enforcement of the judgment. International organizations have recognized him as a political prisoner. -16D06-
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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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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