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Reporters without borders condemn unjustified arrest of Azadlig journalist
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-
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