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The Committee to Protect Journalists and the Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) condemned the ban on the Azerbaijani authorities to leave the country the journalist M.Guseynova
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The Committee to Protect Journalists and the Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) condemned the ban on the Azerbaijani authorities to leave the country the journalist M.Guseynova

Based in New York, the international Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the ban from the Azerbaijani authorities on the reporter for IRFS Mehman Huseynov to leave the country.

 
June 17 Huseynov was detained at the Baku airport when leaving for Oslo to attend the ceremony of receiving an international journalism award Gerd Bucerius "Free Press of Eastern Europe -2013" under the pretext of the presence of criminal proceedings against him.
 
"Barring Mehman Huseynov from leaving the country for journalism award, the Azerbaijani authorities have confirmed the authenticity of the reports of local and international human rights organizations of human rights abuses and repression in the country," said Muzaffar Suleymanov, researcher for CPJ in Europe and Central Asia.
 
Freedom of the press has deteriorated in Azerbaijan over the past two years. On the eve of the presidential election has further increased the threat of public access to uncensored news. At least seven independent journalists are currently held in prisons in Azerbaijan, others are intimidated, assaulted and threatened with imprisonment, according to CPJ. 
 
IRFS itself also made a statement and demanded lifting of the ban on Huseynov to leave the country. "At a time when civil society around the world assesses the labor by Mehman Huseynov in the struggle for human rights, the government of Azerbaijan, prohibiting him from leaving the country, has a reporter on the pressure,"said the director of IRFS Emin Huseynov.
 
IRFS also called trumped-up criminal charges against M. Huseynov. -06D-

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