
Idrak Abbasov undergoes surgery
The correspondent of the newspaper "Ayna-Zerkalo" and the Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) Idrak Abbasov underwent surgery to remove a cyst from the kidney. This is a result of brutal beating in April this year in the village of Sulu-Tepe by security officers of SOCAR. A journalist had an identification vest with inscription «Press» and videotaped confrontation of SOCAR employees and local residents who were accused by the oil company of the capture of its territories.
Idrak’s ribs were broken, his head, eye and internal organs were injured. Abbasov should have a surgery on his eye. Treatment of the journalist was paid partially by the "Reporters without Borders" organisation.
Nobody was brought to justice for the brutal beating of journalist. The version of the authorities in the face of Ali Hasanov is to ensure that Abbas was involved in the conflict on the side of local residents, and employees of SOCAR did not know that he was a journalist.
Two weeks ago, at a seminar in Baku, the OSCE Special Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, rejected that argument, noting that the world had seen the photos of beaten Idrak, and he was dressed in identification vest with inscription «Press»—06B-
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