Baku/04.05.20/Turan: Reporters without borders condemn unjustified arrest and 8 hours questioning without being authorized to call a lawyer of Azadlig journalist Saadat Jahangir and calls on the authorities to stop pressuring the media.
As its noted at RWB’s Twitter , prosecutor Agents pretended to be gas workers in order to enter the journalist's apartment and search her home.
Jahangir was previously arrested on April 28, just before the interview of an opponent, and fined for violating coronavirus lockdown. -0-
Politics
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Former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) Jahangir Hajiyev continues his hunger strike in colony No. 13, which he announced on May 1. According to his lawyer Fahraddin Mehdiyev, Hajiyev takes only water and medicines. According to Mehdiyev, his health worsened as a result of the hunger strike. Thus, the arterial blood pressure was 170/100, the pulse was 100 beats per minute. At the same time, Hajiyev is kept in a common barrack.
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On Monday, the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev reported that as part of measures to clarify coordinates based on geodetic measurements, 40 border posts have already been installed on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on May 6.
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Armenia intends to discuss the settlement of the issue of opening transport infrastructure and trade routes in the region without restrictions with Azerbaijan at the talks in Almaty, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Monday.
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On May 6, US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mark Libby and his wife arrived in the city of Shusha, reads a press release from the US Embassy to Azerbaujan.
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