Azerbaijan will celebrate the International Day Against Impunity

Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) intends to mark November 23 International Day Against Impunity by visiting graves of the  publicist Rafiq Tagi, and to hold  a round table on the theme: "The time has come to put an end to impunity."

International Day Against Impunity  is celebrated since 2011 at the initiative of IFEX, a global network of organizations that protect the right to freedom of expression. The day began celebrating after the massacre in the Philippine town of Ampatuan in 2009, when 32 journalists and media workers were killed. The purpose of the event was to  achieve justice for those who are persecuted for the freedom of expression.

IRFS calls on all those who support freedom of the press to join the demands to the government of Azerbaijan: to put an end to impunity against killers of journalists and those who makes physical pressure on them, to reveal all the crimes against journalists,  and to  bring to justice all guilty, to punish the masterminds and perpetrators  of the killers  of Elmar Huseynov, the editor of the magazine "Monitor" in March 2005,  and journalist Rafiq Tagi in November 2011; to provide information about the investigation; to arrest persons who blackmailed and threatened journalist Khadija Ismayilova in March 2012; to investigate cases of intimidation of journalists and provide their defense.

On November 23   from  12:00 to 13:00 a roundtable on these themes, and at 14:00 they will visit  the grave of Rafiq Tagi.–06D—