“Freedom of the Internet”, the fourth report from human rights organization Freedom House will be published October 3 in Washington, DC. The report covers access to Internet, censorship, tariffs and user rights in 60 countries of the world. The organization's experts provide estimates of the main trends on the state on freedom of digital media. Senator Sherrod Brown and Mr. Stefansson, Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S. will participate in the discussion on the state of freedom of the Internet.
Sanja Kelly, Director of the «Internet Freedom», etc, will present the report. Previous reports from this organization explored the serious restrictions and problems of access to the Internet in Azerbaijan, on the issues of surveillance and harassment by intelligence agencies toward bloggers and citizens who criticize the government online.
Since the last report, the situation in Azerbaijan on this topic has deteriorated. -02D-
Politics
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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