Azerbaijan - Journalists pay the price as Azeri-Iranian war of words heats up

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders seeks an explanation for the arrest of Anar Bayramli, a correspondent for Iranian media, and Ramil Dadashov, a driver for Iranian television. “The Azeri authorities do themselves no favours by turning to the methods used by Iran,” the press freedom organization said. “They clearly have a duty to defend national security, but it is intolerable that their paranoia should lead them to resort to a wide variety of pretexts to muzzle foreign and critical media (...)

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