Azerbaijan - Four journalists arrested over Quba riots

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the arrests on 13 March of three employees of the television station Khayal TV — the executive director, Vugar Gonagov, the editor, Zaur Guliyev, and Zaur Mustafayev, the head of public relations — as well as Jamil Mammadli, a reporter with the Polygon news agency. All are accused of being implicated in the riots in the northern town of Quba in early March. “These arrests highlight the predicament the authorities find themselves in over the disturbances in (...)

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