Baku / 09.27.19 / Turan: A preparatory hearing was held today in the Baku Administrative-Economic Court No. 1, chaired by Elchin Mammadov, on the suit of the arqument.az website against the Ministry of Communications.
The editors consider the website blocking by the Ministry of Communications on April 8-10 this year unlawful.
According to the website editor Shamshad Agha, the website was blocked after publishing an article and video material about a mass protest of local residents in the Jalilabad region.
"The website was blocked and they demanded that we remove the materials. We refused. Two days later, they unblocked the website," the editor said.
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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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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