Fence of infield of the editor realliq.info is illegally demolished

Baku/03.03.17/Turan: On the night of March 3, the employees of the SOCAR pipeline protection service came to the home site of the editor-in-chief of realliq.info Ikram Rahimov's in the settlement of Mehdiabad in Baku, and demolished a stone fence.

The editor was not at home when this crime was committed. In the morning security guards told Rahimov that this was done at the direction of their chief named Rahib. Rahimov was conveyed the chief"s words, who demanded that the journalist come to his bow.

Rahimov called the service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the police did not arrive at the scene of the crime. He also called the press service of SOCAR Ibrahim Ahmedov, who said that the actions of the security guards were illegal. But this was not followed by any conclusions.

As was reported earlier, on the night of November 23, 2017, strangers illegally entered the house of Ikram Rahimov in Mehdiabad settlement, and stole his laptop and processor with a monitor.

Before that, the website realliq.info and 13 other information sites were blocked by the Ministry of Communications at the call of the Press Council, which unfoundedly accused Internet resources of racketeering and introduced them into the so-called "black list".

The websites wrote about illegal enrichment by members of the board of the Press Council, about the arbitrariness of officials and corruption.

The leaders of the blocked websites of Azerbaijan, called the Public Policy Division of the Presidential Administration, the Press Council and the Media Development Support Fund the culprit.

The actions of the Press Council and the blocking of websites are recognized by media experts as illegal. The Press Council's appeal to the Ministry of Communications with an appeal to block websites and block them without a court decision is illegal, Turan was told by the well-known media expert Alesker Mammadli.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Communications stated that it was not involved in the blockage. The editor sued the Communications Ministry in connection with the blocking of websites, but so far the court hearings have not taken place. By this time 7 domains with the name realliq, belonging to Rahimov, have been illegally blocked.

"Every time the authorities blocked my site, I opened the next one. They blocked it, but I opened it. And so it continued to this day, "Rahimov said. -0--