Baku / 31.12.19 / Turan: The editor of the Criminal.az website Anar Mammadov was summoned to the Main Department for Combating Organized Crime (MDCOC) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on December 30.
According to Mammadov, the administration told him that the call was connected with complaints about him.
However, before proceeding to the "complaints", he was presented with claims of "bias" against the police. “I said that I have no bias against the police or any other body,” the journalist said.
According to him, the police representative was further interested in his “connections” with the journalist Khadija Ismayilova.
“He stated that I allegedly receive grants through Ismayilova and with the help of these funds I support the activities of our publication. I said that I respect Ismayilova as a colleague, but I personally do not know her,” Mammadov said.
As for the "complaints", one of them came from a woman whose video message the website had published a month before. The video message was taken from YouTube. The woman appealed to the President of Azerbaijan with a complaint about the arbitrariness of law enforcement agencies and the violation of her property rights.
A week later, she demanded that Mammadov remove the video. The editor published information about the woman’s statement regarding the solution to her problem, but the video was not deleted, since it still remains on YouTube.
The second complaint was related to the publication by Mammadov on his website of information about a girl stabbing a police officer in the Salyan region. “Allegedly, I thereby damaged the business reputation of the police,” Mammadov said.
In the end, having been warned, he was released.
In turn, the journalist Khadija Ismayilova wrote on her Facebook page: “If it’s not clear, I declare it again. I don’t get grants, I don’t open websites, I don’t manage websites.”
She suggested that in the last year of the probationary period, they want to start a new criminal case against her.
Note that Mammadov is currently serving a suspended sentence. He was sentenced in March of this year to 5.5 years in prison with a two-year probationary term on charges of anti-state calls, abuse of authority and forgery.
The reason for criminal prosecution was the publication on the criminal.az website about the attempt on the assassination of the former head of the city of Ganja, Elmar Veliyev.
The verdict on Mammadov was condemned by a number of international journalistic organizations, as well as the OSCE representative for media freedom, Arlem Desir. -16d06-
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