Prosecutor's office warned journalist (UPDATED)

Baku / 24.07.18 / Turan: On Tuesday a journalist AnarMammadov was invited to the Baku Prosecutor's Office to theinvestigator JavidAbbasov. He was charged with disclosing information about the criminal case under investigation.Mammadovhas beenwarned about the disclosure of the secrets of the investigation, said Mammadov himself.Earlier, the journalist said that he had been questioned for 50 hours in the prosecutor's office in connection with the information disseminated by him on the criminalaz.com website in connection with the Ganja events.

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2018 July 24 (Tuesday) 15:33:28

Journalist summoned to prosecutor's office

Baku / 24.07.18 / Turan: The editor of the site criminalaz.com , Anar Mammadov, was again summoned to the prosecutor's office. He was called from the Baku city prosecutor's office and ordered to be there today at 15:00, Mammadov said.

The journalist does not know the reason for today's summon. However, he was repeatedly interrogated on Ganja events, where on July 3 as a result of an armed attack the head of the city Elmar Veliyev and his bodyguard were injured, and on the 10th day during the riots two police officers were killed.

Until now, Mammadov has been questioned for a total of 50 hours.

Mammadov was searched, the computer and hard drives were seized.

On the initiative of the Prosecutor General's Office in connection with the events in Ganja, bastainfo.com, criminalaz.com, topxeber.az and fia.az were blocked.

After a few days, access was also restricted to gununsesi.info and teref.info.

Phone and computer of the editor of gununsesi.info Parviz Hashimli were seized.

Activists regard these facts as a restriction of freedom of speech and expression. -06D-