Journalist is threatened with death

Nakhchivan correspondent  of the Azerbaijani Service of "Radio Liberty", Yafez Akramoglu,  was threatened through the social network Facebook.

Threats come from the group "Who is Yafez Akramoglu?" , which includes the users named Rauf Aliyev Kengerli, Gamlo Qurban Nakhchivanlil İlkin Jalilov, Metin Azeril Seyyar Mammadov, Elvin Aliyev , Tural Seferovl and Gamlo Gurbanov.

They accuse the journalist  of blackening  the leadership of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR), and of the publication of critical articles about Nakhchivan.

" Death  for him! he must be eliminated in order to remove this stain from Nakhchivan," writes Gamlo Qurban Nakhchivanli.

Further, he wrote that the action begins. "We give him 10 days. He either should state  publicly  that he will not blacken Nakhchivan, or we should launch the  plan  to eliminate him," writes the user.

Akramoglu  has been previously subjected to pressure and threats in Nakhchivan. In 2011 he was deported from the NAR to  Iran.

Akramoglu said  he repeatedly complained to law enforcement authorities, but in vain.

Now he intends to file with  his lawyer another complaint, and sue the prosecutor's office and the police for their inaction on previous appeals.—03B06--