Baku Yasamal District Court yesterday upheld the lawsuit from the owner of Bina, Kabira Mammadova to the Azadlig newspaper and its reporter Ramin Deko. As the lawyer of the newspaper Fariz Namazly said, the court ordered the newspaper to pay the plaintiff AZN 30,000 as compensation for moral damages, and the reporter to pay 2,000 manats. Mammadova had demanded AZN 50,000 from each defendant.
The court ordered the newspaper to publish a retraction and an apology to Mammadova.
The reason for the lawsuit was an article published in the issues of Azadlig on 7 and 8-9 July entitled Eurovision Deal of Kabira Mammadova and Bill of Sale Deal of Kabira Mammadova.
The articles referred to the requirement of Mammadova after the contest Eurovision 2012 in Baku from the tenants in the shopping center to pay her 5,000 manats. According to the newspaper, Mammadova motivated the requirement, saying that the trade center had major expenses, when financing the Eurovision.
The articles also pointed to the exorbitant rates for rental stores in Bina, inflated charges for the use of electricity and other unofficial payments.
Mammadova denied the articles and evaluated them as damage to the business reputation of the shopping center and personally to her image.
The first deputy chief editor of the newspaper Azadlig Rahim Hajiyev regarded the court decision as "politically motivated."
"This decision is further evidence of the regime's repressive policies against the newspaper Azadlig," Hajiyev said.
Earlier, at the suit of the chief of Baku Metro, Tagi Ahmadov, the newspaper was claimed to pay a fine of 30,000 manat.
In addition, at the claim of MP Novruz Aslanov, the court required three thousand manats (three thousand euros) from the reporter Deko.
Another 4,000 manats was sanctioned to the newspaper by the court at the suit of the son of the Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov, Anar Mammadov. This claim has already been sent for execution and the newspaper is facing confiscation of its property. -06D-
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