05 May 2024 / 09:42 RU

    Reporters without borders condemn unjustified arrest of Azerbaijani journalist

    Reporters without borders condemn unjustified arrest and 8 hours questioning without being authorized to call a lawyer of Azadlig newspaper journalist Saadat Jahangir in Azerbaijan and calls on the authorities to stop pressuring the media, Turan reports. 

    As its noted at RWB’s Twitter , prosecutor Agents pretended to be gas workers in order to enter the journalist's apartment and search her home. 

    Jahangir was previously arrested on April 28, just before the interview of an opponent, and fined for violating coronavirus lockdown.


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    06 May 2020 / 10:00