Journalist Natig Javadli interrogated in the prosecutor’s office

On 6 February a journalist Natig Javadli  was questioned in the Serious Crimes Investigation Department of  Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan. The interrogation lasted about two hours and was associated with the activity of the  Meydan TV website for  which  the journalists worked, Turan was told by Javadli.  The journalist  was asked to sign subscription of not divulging the secrets of the investigation.

On 5  February  the  General Prosecutor's Office interrogated two other journalists cooperating with Meydan TV - Sevinj Vagifgyzy and Aytaj Akhmedova.  Last fall the journalists of  Meydan TV  were seriously  questioned  in the prosecutor's office. Then the  relatives of the  resource managers who are abroad  were arrested.

Observers note that the activity of this Internet resource which is  actively covering  the protests and publishing  journalistic investigation has long irritated the authorities of Azerbaijan.

Meydan TV was created in 2013 at the expense of European Funds. The channel’s founder  is  a former political prisoner, blogger Emin Milli (Abdullayev). -06B-